[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce removal of old port count function
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Jun 4 09:17:16 CEST 2019
04/06/2019 09:12, David Marchand:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 11:48 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >
> > + ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
> >
> > +* ethdev: The function ``rte_eth_dev_count`` will be removed in DPDK
> > 20.02.
> > + It is replaced by the function ``rte_eth_dev_count_avail``.
> > + If the intent is to iterate over ports, ``RTE_ETH_FOREACH_*`` macros
> > + are better port iterators.
> > +
> > * vfio: removal of ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_dma_unmap`` APIs
> > which
> > have been replaced with ``rte_dev_dma_map`` and ``rte_dev_dma_unmap``
> > functions. The due date for the removal targets DPDK 20.02.
>
> Out of curiosity (ok, not entirely, since I need to write some notices).
> Is there a rule for the order in which those entries are written?
Yes the order should be the same as for the features in the release notes.
> I can see a notice about ethdev later in the file.
Indeed, ethdev is supposed to be after EAL,
it is my mistake.
> Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
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