[dpdk-dev,v1] doc: postpone devargs genericisation work

Message ID 20180528161035.3506-1-gaetan.rivet@6wind.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Gaëtan Rivet May 28, 2018, 4:10 p.m. UTC
  Device querying and declaration has been postponed to 18.08.
Additionally, while working on the feature, some changes previously
announced won't be enacted.

Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>
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 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
  

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Thomas Monjalon May 29, 2018, 9:58 a.m. UTC | #1
28/05/2018 18:10, Gaetan Rivet:
> Device querying and declaration has been postponed to 18.08.
> Additionally, while working on the feature, some changes previously
> announced won't be enacted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>

Applied, thanks
  

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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 103520cc2..1ce692eac 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -18,13 +18,12 @@  Deprecation Notices
   - if DPDK is not running as root and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set, path will be
     set to ``/tmp/dpdk/<prefix>/config``
 
-* eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.05.
+* eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.08.
   New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
   device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the
   new scheme of device identification.
   As such, ``rte_devargs`` device representation will change.
 
-  - removal of ``name`` and ``args`` fields.
   - The enum ``rte_devtype`` was used to identify a bus and will disappear.
   - Functions previously deprecated will change or disappear: