[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce kernel driver enum removal

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 04:07:52PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> rte_kernel_driver is only used by the PCI subsystem and has polluted
> ethdev for no reason.
> Hide it in the PCI bus driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 9f73297173..6e86963c39 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    With this removal, there won't be a need for the mentioned workaround which
>    will be reverted.
>  
> +* pci: The ``rte_kernel_driver`` enum defined in rte_dev.h will be made private
> +  to the PCI subsystem as it is used only by the PCI bus driver and PCI
> +  drivers.
> +  The associated field ``kdrv`` in the ethdev ``rte_eth_dev_data`` structure
> +  will be removed as it gave no useful abstracted information to the
> +  applications and had no user (neither internal nor external).
> +
>  * ethdev: Split the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct to hide it as much as possible
>    will be done in 20.11.
>    Currently the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct is accessible by the application
> -- 

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>