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

Ananyev, Konstantin konstantin.ananyev at intel.com
Mon Jul 20 13:35:51 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
> --

Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com

> 2.25.1



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