doc: announce API change for net defines/structs/funcs

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

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading python
   packages.
 
+* network includes: Network structures, definitions and functions will
+  be prefixed by ``rte_`` to resolve conflicts with libc headers.
+  This change will break many DPDK APIs.
+
 * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
   for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.