From patchwork Fri Aug 24 14:51:23 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ferruh Yigit X-Patchwork-Id: 43860 X-Patchwork-Delegate: ferruh.yigit@amd.com Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF7C54CAB; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:52:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4734CA2 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:52:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 24 Aug 2018 06:52:16 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.53,281,1531810800"; d="scan'208";a="84189778" Received: from silpixa00399752.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa00399752.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.237.222.212]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 24 Aug 2018 06:51:39 -0700 From: Ferruh Yigit To: Neil Horman , John McNamara , Marko Kovacevic Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit , Thomas Monjalon , Andrew Rybchenko , Matan Azrad Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:51:23 +0100 Message-Id: <20180824145123.62501-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: deprecate DEFERRED device state X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add a deprecation notice to remove RTE_ETH_DEV_DEFERRED state, but this is mostly a reminder because of a missing target. It doesn't worth to break the ABI because of this change and removal can be done when ethdev ABI version increased. Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko --- Cc: Thomas Monjalon Cc: Andrew Rybchenko Cc: Matan Azrad --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index e2dbee317..9cd12ccd8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -95,3 +95,7 @@ Deprecation Notices This is due to a lack of flexibility and reliance on a type unusable with C++ programs (struct rte_flow_desc). + +* ethdev: remove deprecated RTE_ETH_DEV_DEFERRED device state. + Since this is an enum filed in the middle, removing this field will break + the ABI, so removing postponed to next ethdev ABI version increase.