On Friday 11 November 2016 05:34 PM, John McNamara wrote: [...] > -* **Improved device/driver hierarchy and generalized hotplugging** > +* **Improved device/driver hierarchy and generalized hotplugging.** > > - Device and driver relationship has been restructured by introducing generic > - classes. This paves way for having PCI, VDEV and other device types as > - just instantiated objects rather than classes in themselves. Hotplugging > too > - has been generalized into EAL so that ethernet or crypto devices can use > the > + The device and driver relationship has been restructured by introducing > generic > + classes. This paves the way for having PCI, VDEV and other device types as > + instantiated objects rather than classes in themselves. Hotplugging has > also > + been generalized into EAL so that Ethernet or crypto devices can use the > common infrastructure. > > - * removed ``pmd_type`` as way of segregation of devices > - * moved ``numa_node`` and ``devargs`` into ``rte_driver`` from > + * Removed ``pmd_type`` as a way of segregation of devices. > + * Moved ``numa_node`` and ``devargs`` into ``rte_driver`` from > ``rte_pci_driver``. These can now be used by any instantiated object of > ``rte_driver``. > - * added ``rte_device`` class and all PCI and VDEV devices inherit from it > - * renamed devinit/devuninit handlers to probe/remove to make it more > - semantically correct with respect to device<=>driver relationship > - * moved hotplugging support to EAL. Hereafter, PCI and vdev can use the > + * Added ``rte_device`` class and all PCI and VDEV devices inherit from it > + * Renamed devinit/devuninit handlers to probe/remove to make it more > + semantically correct with respect to the device <=> driver relationship. > + * Moved hotplugging support to EAL. Hereafter, PCI and vdev can use the > APIs ``rte_eal_dev_attach`` and ``rte_eal_dev_detach``. > - * helpers and support macros have been renamed to make them more synonymous > + * Renamed helpers and support macros to make them more synonymous > with their device types > - (e.g. ``PMD_REGISTER_DRIVER`` => ``RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PCI``) > + (e.g. ``PMD_REGISTER_DRIVER`` => ``RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PCI``). > * Device naming functions have been generalized from ethdev and cryptodev > to EAL. ``rte_eal_pci_device_name`` has been introduced for obtaining > unique device name from PCI Domain-BDF description.
If it is possible to have a Reviewed-by for a particular part of a patch: Reviewed-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>
