mempool: return 0 if area is too small on populate

[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
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
   remove it from the externally visible ABI and allow it to be updated in the
   future.
 
+* igb_uio: In the view of reducing the kernel dependency from the main tree,
+  as a first step, the Technical Board decided to move ``igb_uio``
+  kernel module to the dpdk-kmods repository in the /linux/igb_uio/ directory
+  in 20.11.
+  Minutes of Technical Board Meeting of `2019-11-06
+  <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/151763.html>`_.
+
 * lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple
   samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is
   used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this
@@ -58,11 +65,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   structure would be made internal (or removed if all dependencies are cleared)
   in future releases.
 
-* mempool: starting from v20.05, the API of rte_mempool_populate_iova()
-  and rte_mempool_populate_virt() will change to return 0 instead
-  of -EINVAL when there is not enough room to store one object. The ABI
-  will be preserved until 20.11.
-
 * ethdev: the legacy filter API, including
   ``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well
   as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR,
@@ -105,3 +107,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized.
   In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first
   (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change.
+
+* python: Since the beginning of 2020, Python 2 has officially reached
+  end-of-support: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/.
+  Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11.
+  In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running
+  scripts with Python 2.