[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ivshmem support removal

[Thomas Monjalon]

There was a prior call with an explanation of what needs to be done:
	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html
- Qemu patch upstreamed
- IVSHMEM PCI device managed by a PCI driver
- No DPDK objects (ring/mempool) allocated by EAL

As nobody seems interested, it is time to remove this code which
makes EAL improvements harder.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 9cadf6a..1ef8460 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   will be removed in 16.11.
   It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions.
 
+* The ``rte_ivshmem`` feature (including library and EAL code) will be removed
+  in 16.11 because it has some design issues which are not planned to be fixed.
+
 * The ethtool support will be removed from KNI in 16.11.
   It is implemented only for igb and ixgbe.
   It is really hard to maintain because it requires some out-of-tree kernel
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2.7.0