[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: deprecate 17.08 devargs API/ABI

Jan Blunck jblunck at infradead.org
Sun Jul 9 11:28:47 CEST 2017


Add deprecation notice necessary to do devargs refactoring for 17.11.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck at infradead.org>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 33e8b93db..5b6ed0444 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -64,3 +64,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   be removed in 17.11:
 
   - ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``
+
+* devargs: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure ``rte_devargs``.
+  The newly introduced devargs ABI in 17.08 is tightly couple to the bus
+  implementations which will get fixed in 17.11. The following function is
+  deprecated and will change API in 17.11:
+
+  - ``rte_eal_devargs_add``
-- 
2.11.0 (Apple Git-81)



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