[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce renaming of ethdev library
Ananyev, Konstantin
konstantin.ananyev at intel.com
Thu Jul 28 13:29:29 CEST 2016
>
> The right name of ethdev should be dpdk_netdev. However:
> 1/ We are using rte_ prefix in the code and library names.
> 2/ The API uses rte_ethdev
> That's why 16.11 will just have the rte_ prefix prepended to the
> library filename as every other libraries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index f502f86..7a55037 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
> * The log history is deprecated.
> It is voided in 16.07 and will be removed in release 16.11.
>
> +* The ethdev library file will be renamed from libethdev.* to
> +librte_ethdev.*
> + in release 16.11 in order to have a more consistent namespace.
> +
> * The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a
> notification
> mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug
> is
> now
> available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the
> device arguments
> --
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
> 2.7.0
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