[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce transition to vDPA port close function

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Aug 3 00:49:21 CEST 2021


18/05/2021 09:34, Thomas Monjalon:
> There is a layer violation in the vDPA API which encourages to destroy
> a full device with rte_dev_remove() instead of just closing the port.
> The plan is to introduce a new function in 21.08, promote in 21.11,
> and deprecate rte_vdpa_get_rte_device() in 21.11.

I forgot this issue.
Let's hope I (or someone else) will introduce the "close" function
so we can remove this layer violation from DPDK 22.11.




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