On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.j...@nxp.com> wrote: > 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). >
There is no benefit in keeping eth_driver and removing rte_pci_driver from it. Technically it isn't even needed today. > >> +* 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 >> >
