[PATCH v3 6/7] doc: update docs for ethdev changes

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Fri Oct 3 13:02:00 CEST 2025


Move text from deprecation notice to release note, and update.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst   | 7 -------
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 483030cda8..4b9da99484 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -98,13 +98,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   - ``rte_flow_item_pppoe``
   - ``rte_flow_item_pppoe_proto_id``
 
-* ethdev: Queue specific stats fields will be removed from ``struct rte_eth_stats``.
-  Mentioned fields are: ``q_ipackets``, ``q_opackets``, ``q_ibytes``, ``q_obytes``,
-  ``q_errors``.
-  Instead queue stats will be received via xstats API. Current method support
-  will be limited to maximum 256 queues.
-  Also compile time flag ``RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS`` will be removed.
-
 * ethdev: Flow actions ``PF`` and ``VF`` have been deprecated since DPDK 21.11
   and are yet to be removed. That still has not happened because there are net
   drivers which support combined use of either action ``PF`` or action ``VF``
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst
index c3b94e1896..4b00d3ec9e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.rst
@@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =======================================================
 
+* ethdev: As previously announced in deprecation notes,
+  queue specific stats fields are now removed from ``struct rte_eth_stats``.
+  Mentioned fields are: ``q_ipackets``, ``q_opackets``, ``q_ibytes``, ``q_obytes``, ``q_errors``.
+  Instead queue stats will be received via xstats API.
+  Also compile time flag ``RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS`` is removed from public headers.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
-- 
2.48.1



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