[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce kernel driver enum removal

[Gaëtan Rivet]

On 04/08/20 15:29 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <grive at u256.net>

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Gaëtan