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

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Jul 21 19:49:39 CEST 2025


> 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.




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