[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] next-net: remove ethdev driver

[Shreyansh Jain]

On Tuesday 18 April 2017 11:57 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> There are two PMDs in next-net and not merged into main tree:
> - ARK
> - DPAA2
>
> These drivers also needs to get these updates.
>
> And to prevent breaking build these changes can be squashed into PMD
> in next-net before integration. This means these changes needs to be
> merged promptly.
>
> ARK PMD updates are done, can you please review and please feel free to
> re-make the patch if required.
> CC: Shepard Siegel <shepard.siegel at atomicrules.com>
> CC: Ed Czeck <ed.czeck at atomicrules.com>
> CC: John Miller <john.miller at atomicrules.com>
>
> Since DPAA2 has its own device type and not using ethdev driver, it
> looks like no update required, can you please double check?
> CC: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
> CC: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.c

Based on this patch series, eth_driver was removed a couple of versions
back [1]. DPAA2 PMD is not using eth_driver now.

[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-March/060478.html - v9

>
> Also xenvirt giving a build error related ethdev driver usage, build
> error fixed, again please feel free to send new version of the patch
> if required. This can be preferred to get into main tree.
> CC: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
>
>
> CC: Jan Blunck <jblunck at infradead.org>
> CC: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> CC: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>
>
>
> Ferruh Yigit (2):
>   net/ark: remove eth_dev
>   net/xenvirt: remove ethdev driver
>
>  drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c          | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  drivers/net/xenvirt/rte_eth_xenvirt.c |  1 -
>  2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>