[EXTERNAL] [PATCH] doc: announce DMA configuration structure changes

[fengchengwen]

Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>

On 2025/7/25 14:04, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula wrote:
>>> Deprecate rte_dma_conf structure to allow for a more flexible
>>> configuration of DMA devices.
>>> The new structure will have a flags field instead of multiple
>>> boolean fields for each feature.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <mailto:pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
>>> ---
>>> +* dmadev: The ``rte_dma_conf`` structure is updated to include a new field
>>> +  ``rte_dma_conf::flags`` that should be used to configure dmadev features.
>>> +  The existing field ``rte_dma_conf::enable_silent`` is removed and replaced
>>> +  with the new flag ``RTE_DMA_CFG_FLAG_SILENT``, to configure silent mode
>>> +  the flag should be set in ``rte_dma_conf::flags`` during device configuration.
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Amit Prakash Shukla <amitprakashs at marvell.com>
>>
>> There is only 1 ack.
>> Per our policy, it will miss the release 25.07.
>>
>> You can probably do this change anyway,
>> and keep ABI compatibility by versioning the function.
> 
> Hi Fengchengwen,
> 
> Are you ok with this change? If so please ack it so that I can work on getting
> an exception from techboard to merge this without deprecation notice in 25.11.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pavan.
>