[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of rawdev exposed array
Jerin Jacob
jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com
Fri Nov 23 17:32:58 CET 2018
-----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:08:14 +0000
> From: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>
> To: "dev at dpdk.org" <dev at dpdk.org>
> CC: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of rawdev exposed
> array
> x-mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1
>
>
> rte_rawdevs is expected to be deprecated in future releases. This is
> not expected to be directly used, without API access that is, by any
> external application or driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
>
> ---
> This is in sync with discussion in [1]
> [1] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-October/114592.html
> ---
> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 34b28234c..776b9b245 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -55,3 +55,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
> - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed;
> - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed;
> - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed.
> +
> +* rawdev: ``rte_rawdevs`` is an array containing all registered raw devices.
> + Currently this is exposed from the library. Ideally, no application should
> + be directly using it. This is expected to be deprecated and made internal
> + in v19.02 or later.
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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