doc: clarify PMD order in release notes

Message ID 20210409152145.2550755-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series doc: clarify PMD order in release notes |

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Ferruh Yigit April 9, 2021, 3:21 p.m. UTC
  PMD updates are expected in alphabetical order based on their vendor
name. Clarify this expectation in the section comment.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
---
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon April 9, 2021, 3:34 p.m. UTC | #1
09/04/2021 17:21, Ferruh Yigit:
> PMD updates are expected in alphabetical order based on their vendor
> name. Clarify this expectation in the section comment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> ---
> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> ---
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ New Features
>       * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
>       * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
>         - ethdev (lib, PMDs)
> +         * PMDs are ordered alphabetically on vendor name
>         - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
>         - eventdev (lib, PMDs)

It is not specific to ethdev.
It could be a general comment.
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
index e739153b509f..20cca03cbb9d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@  New Features
      * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
      * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
        - ethdev (lib, PMDs)
+         * PMDs are ordered alphabetically on vendor name
        - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
        - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
        - etc