[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] doc: postpone ABI changes in igb_uio

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 2/9/2017 4:06 PM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> This ABI changes to remove iomem and ioport mapping in igb_uio. The
> purpose of this changes was to fix a bug: when DPDK app crashes,
> those devices by igb_uio are not stopped either DPDK PMD driver or
> igb_uio driver.
> 
> Then it has been pointed out by Stephen Hemminger that it has
> backward compatibility issue: cannot run old version DPDK on
> modified igb_uio.
> 
> However, we still have not figure out a new way to fix this bug
> without this change. Let's postpone this deprecation announcement
> in case this change cannot be avoided.
> 
> Fixes: 3bac1dbc1ed ("doc: announce iomem and ioport removal from igb_uio")
> 
> Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Suggested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>