2017-02-13 17:30, 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.j...@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).
Yes I think we should keep the original idea. I will work on it with Jan Blunck and Stephen Hemminger I think. > > +* 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. I am going to reword it in a v2.
