[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce kernel driver enum removal
Bruce Richardson
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Aug 4 16:29:38 CEST 2020
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 04:07:52PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> rte_kernel_driver is only used by the PCI subsystem and has polluted
> ethdev for no reason.
> Hide it in the PCI bus driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> ---
> 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 9f73297173..6e86963c39 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
> With this removal, there won't be a need for the mentioned workaround which
> will be reverted.
>
> +* pci: The ``rte_kernel_driver`` enum defined in rte_dev.h will be made private
> + to the PCI subsystem as it is used only by the PCI bus driver and PCI
> + drivers.
> + The associated field ``kdrv`` in the ethdev ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
> + will be removed as it gave no useful abstracted information to the
> + applications and had no user (neither internal nor external).
> +
> * ethdev: Split the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct to hide it as much as possible
> will be done in 20.11.
> Currently the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct is accessible by the application
> --
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
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