doc: postpone API change in ethdev

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / deprecation.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 82d1ce5..d2a6f82 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change
   targets release 17.05.
 
+* vfio: Some functions are planned to be exported outside librte_eal in 17.05.
+  VFIO APIs like ``vfio_setup_device``, ``vfio_get_group_fd`` can be used by
+  subsystem other than EAL/PCI. For that, these need to be exported symbols.
+  Such APIs are planned to be renamed according to ``rte_*`` naming convention
+  and exported from librte_eal.
+
 * The PCI and VDEV subsystems will be converted as drivers of the new bus model.
   It will imply some EAL API changes in 17.05.
 
@@ -42,8 +48,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
   ``eth_driver``. Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from
   ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05.
 
-* ethdev: an API change is planned for 17.02 for the function
-  ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int``
+* ethdev: An API change is planned for 17.05 for the function
+  ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.05 the function will return an ``int``
   instead of ``void`` and a fourth parameter ``void *ret_param`` will be added.
 
 * ABI changes are planned for 17.05 in the ``rte_mbuf`` structure: some fields