[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] doc: add deprecation notice for change of rawdev APIs

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Mon Jul 13 14:31:05 CEST 2020


Add to the documentation for 20.08 a notice about the changes of rawdev
APIs proposed by patchset [1].

[1] http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200709152047.167730-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com/

Cc: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta at nxp.com>
Cc: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 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 ead7cbe43..21b00103e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
   break the ABI checks, that is why change is planned for 20.11.
   The list of internal APIs are mainly ones listed in ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``.
 
+* rawdev: The rawdev APIs which take a device-specific structure as
+  parameter directly, or indirectly via a "private" pointer inside another
+  structure, will be modified to take an additional parameter of the
+  structure size. The affected APIs will include ``rte_rawdev_info_get``,
+  ``rte_rawdev_configure``, ``rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get`` and
+  ``rte_rawdev_queue_setup``.
+
 * traffic manager: All traffic manager API's in ``rte_tm.h`` were mistakenly made
   ABI stable in the v19.11 release. The TM maintainer and other contributors have
   agreed to keep the TM APIs as experimental in expectation of additional spec
-- 
2.25.1



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