From: Pablo de Lara Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 16:56:34 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: announce driver name changes X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~6053 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9013c56c640bca63085bfa3bfe8a07c55fa9633a;p=dpdk.git doc: announce driver name changes Driver names for all the supported devices in DPDK do not have a naming convention. Some are using a prefix, some are not and some have long names. Driver names are used when creating virtual devices, so it is useful to have consistency in the names. Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin Acked-by: Jerin Jacob --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 7fc118593a..0967e653d7 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -37,3 +37,8 @@ Deprecation Notices * The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and will be removed in 16.11. It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. + +* Driver names are quite inconsistent among each others and they will be + renamed to something more consistent (net and crypto prefixes) in 16.11. + Some of these driver names are used publicly, to create virtual devices, + so a deprecation notice is necessary.