doc: announce dpaa-specific API parameter change

[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
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   experimental in v20.11 DPDK release. For more details, please see `the thread
   <https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/164970.html>`_.
 
+* pmd_dpaa: The API ``rte_pmd_dpaa_set_tx_loopback`` will have extended
+  ``port_id`` definition from ``uint8_t`` to ``uint16_t``.
+
 * cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can
   be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``,
   ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal
@@ -129,6 +132,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the
   RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html.
 
+* mbuf: ``refcnt_atomic`` member in structures ``rte_mbuf`` and
+  ``rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info`` is of type ``rte_atomic16_t``. Due to adoption
+  of C11 atomic builtins it will be of type ``uint16_t``. ``refcnt_atomic``
+  will be removed in 20.11. It will be replaced with ``refcnt`` of type
+  ``uint16_t``.
+
 * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
   in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.