From 472a0d6966e7b47b7830aaa2023b7e27245bb25e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jerin Jacob Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:28:53 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce igb_uio move to an external repository Based on the tech board meeting held on 2019-11-06, It's been decided to move igb_uio kernel module to a new repository hosted by dpdk.org in v20.11 release. http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html Adding the deprecation notice for the same in advance. Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: David Marchand --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 99d81564a8..0b5d90f8d3 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ Deprecation Notices remove it from the externally visible ABI and allow it to be updated in the future. +* igb_uio: In the view of reducing the kernel dependency from the main tree, + as a first step, the Technical Board decided to move ``igb_uio`` + kernel module to the dpdk-kmods repository in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory + in 20.11. + Minutes of Technical Board Meeting of `2019-11-06 + `_. + * lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this -- 2.20.1