[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of rawdev exposed array

[Shreyansh Jain]

rte_rawdevs is expected to be deprecated in future releases. This is
not expected to be directly used, without API access that is, by any
external application or driver.

Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>

---
 This is in sync with discussion in [1]
 [1] http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-October/114592.html
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 34b28234c..776b9b245 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -55,3 +55,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
   - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed;
   - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed;
   - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed.
+
+* rawdev: ``rte_rawdevs`` is an array containing all registered raw devices.
+  Currently this is exposed from the library. Ideally, no application should
+  be directly using it. This is expected to be deprecated and made internal
+  in v19.02 or later.
-- 
2.17.1