doc: add notes about eventdev producer/consumer dependency

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / prog_guide / eventdev.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/eventdev.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/eventdev.rst
index 8fcae54695bdf050d52839910cc4a6d825142640..dcdfeb75efba88bf2295fec58c699cf2c0c3ef09 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/eventdev.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/eventdev.rst
@@ -296,6 +296,11 @@ eventdev.
 
         int err = rte_event_dev_start(dev_id);
 
+.. Note::
+
+         EventDev needs to be started before starting the event producers such
+         as event_eth_rx_adapter, event_timer_adapter and event_crypto_adapter.
+
 Ingress of New Events
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~