[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: remove experimental from hotplug add/remove

Xu, Rosen rosen.xu at intel.com
Mon Oct 8 04:58:25 CEST 2018



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2018 18:24
> To: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>; Xu, Rosen
> <rosen.xu at intel.com>; Zhang, Tianfei <tianfei.zhang at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>; Stokes, Ian
> <ian.stokes at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: remove experimental from hotplug
> add/remove
> 
> On 10/2/2018 11:08 AM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> > On 10/2/18 2:04 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> >> rte_eal_hotplug_add() & rte_eal_hotplug_remove() APIs first added on
> >> v17.08 as experimental
> >> Commit a3ee360f4440 ("eal: add hotplug add/remove device")
> >>
> >> When __rte_experimental tag created, APIs tagged with it on v18.02
> >> Commit 77b7b81e32e9 ("add experimental tag to appropriate functions")
> >>
> >> After rte_eth_dev_attach() & rte_eth_dev_detach() APIs has been
> >> deprecated in v18.08 eal APIs are only ones for hotplug operations
> >> Commit 9f2be5b3db8b ("ethdev: deprecate attach and detach functions")
> >>
> >> These APIs are around for a few releases now and without an
> >> alternative, removing the experimental tag from them.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> >
> > Dup of http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/45791/ ?
> 
> Ahh, yes it is, I will mark this as Rejected, thanks.

Just back from holiday, a long story of this patch and 45791 :)


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