mbuf: remove control mbuf

[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 e931a24..bb89eb2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -38,18 +38,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   success and failure, respectively.  This will change to 1 and 0 for true and
   false, respectively, to make use of the function more intuitive.
 
-* eal: new ``numa_node_count`` member will be added to ``rte_config`` structure
-  in v18.05.
-
-* eal: due to internal data layout reorganization, there will be changes to
-  several structures and functions as a result of coming changes to support
-  memory hotplug in v18.05.
-  ``rte_eal_get_physmem_layout`` will be deprecated and removed in subsequent
-  releases.
-  ``rte_mem_config`` contents will change due to switch to memseg lists.
-  ``rte_memzone`` member ``memseg_id`` will no longer serve any useful purpose
-  and will be removed.
-
 * eal: a new set of mbuf mempool ops name APIs for user, platform and best
   mempool names have been defined in ``rte_mbuf`` in v18.02. The uses of
   ``rte_eal_mbuf_default_mempool_ops`` shall be replaced by
@@ -76,19 +64,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
     customize objects population and allocate contiguous
     block of objects if underlying driver supports it.
 
-* mbuf: The control mbuf API will be removed in v18.05. The impacted
-  functions and macros are:
-
-  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_init()``
-  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_alloc()``
-  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_free()``
-  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_data()``
-  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_len()``
-  - ``rte_is_ctrlmbuf()``
-  - ``CTRL_MBUF_FLAG``
-
-  The packet mbuf API should be used as a replacement.
-
 * mbuf: The opaque ``mbuf->hash.sched`` field will be updated to support generic
   definition in line with the ethdev TM and MTR APIs. Currently, this field
   is defined in librte_sched in a non-generic way. The new generic format
@@ -134,15 +109,20 @@ Deprecation Notices
   between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields
   are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct.
 
+* ethdev: The prototype and the behavior of
+  ``dev_ops->eth_mac_addr_set()`` will change in v18.05. A return code
+  will be added to notify the caller if an error occurred in the PMD. In
+  ``rte_eth_dev_default_mac_addr_set()``, the new default MAC address
+  will be copied in ``dev->data->mac_addrs[0]`` only if the operation is
+  successful. This modification will only impact the PMDs, not the
+  applications.
+
 * i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
   bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
   required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
   director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a
   global configuration setting and require explicit configuration.
 
-* librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles.
-  Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter.
-
 * ring: The alignment constraints on the ring structure will be relaxed
   to one cache line instead of two, and an empty cache line padding will
   be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the