[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] doc: remove dpdk iova aware notice

[santosh]

Hi Thomas,


On Tuesday 24 October 2017 01:59 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 20/10/2017 14:31, Santosh Shukla:
>> Removed dpdk iova aware ABI deprecation notice,
>> and updated ABI change details in release_17.11.rst.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>
>> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
>> ---
>> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>> -* eal: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 to make DPDK aware of IOVA address
>> -  translation scheme.
>> -  Reference to phys address in EAL data-structure or functions may change to
>> -  IOVA address or more appropriate name.
>> -  The change will be only for the name.
>> -  Functional aspects of the API or data-structure will remain same.
> Sorry, this series cannot be applied as is because it is breaking
> more than EAL API. The API of mbuf and mempool are also changed.
> We need to choose one of these three options:
> 	1/ accept to break all API in 17.11
> 	2/ postpone the whole series to 18.02

Theme of series is to make dpdk iova aware so I would prefer option 1) or 2).
However I have no strong opinion on this topic. 
Lets get more opinion from others about option 1/2/3.

> 	3/ rename only EAL API in 17.11 and postpone mbuf/mempool
>
> One more comment:
> For such a large change, we should provide a script in devtools
> to help porting the applications. I suggest a sed script.

+1.
Thanks.