[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add deprecation note for rework of PCI in EAL

[Shreyansh Jain]

On Monday 13 February 2017 05:25 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
> EAL PCI layer is planned to be restructured in 17.05 to unlink it from
> generic structures like eth_driver, rte_cryptodev_driver, and also move
> it into a PCI Bus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index fbe2fcb..b12d435 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -13,10 +13,14 @@ 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
> -  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``.

Just to highlight, above statement was added by me in 16.11.
As of now I plan to work on removing rte_pci_driver from eth_driver,
rather than removing eth_driver all together (which, probably, was
better idea).
If someone still wishes to work on its complete removal, we can keep
the above. (and probably remove the below).

> +* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.05 for PCI subsystem. This is to
> +  unlink EAL dependency on PCI and to move PCI devices to a PCI specific
> +  bus.
> +
> +* ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from ``eth_driver`` in 17.05.
> +  This is to unlink the ethernet driver from PCI dependencies.
> +  Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` in planned to be removed from
> +  ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05.
>
>  * In 17.02 ABI changes are planned: the ``rte_eth_dev`` structure will be
>    extended with new function pointer ``tx_pkt_prepare`` allowing verification
>