From: Thomas Monjalon Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:20:34 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: announce API changes to implement the bus model X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~4480 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1f07dd16d7e825659fcc781676c77040eaf45eb;p=dpdk.git doc: announce API changes to implement the bus model The new bus model has been proposed in 17.02 without being used. The big rework should happen in 17.05. Suggested-by: Shreyansh Jain Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Jan Blunck Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal Acked-by: John McNamara --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 123a739e8c..82d1ce5e50 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -33,10 +33,14 @@ Deprecation Notices has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change targets release 17.05. -* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.02. This currently serves as +* The PCI and VDEV subsystems will be converted as drivers of the new bus model. + It will imply some EAL API changes in 17.05. + +* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.05. This currently serves as a placeholder for PMDs to register themselves. Changes for ``rte_bus`` will provide a way to handle device initialization currently being done in - ``eth_driver``. + ``eth_driver``. Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from + ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05. * ethdev: an API change is planned for 17.02 for the function ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int``