doc: announce deprecation of librte_malloc

Announce the creation of dummy malloc library for 2.1 and removal of
such library, now integrated in librte_eal, for 2.2 release.

Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
index 126f73e..9e98d62 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
@@ -29,3 +29,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
   and several ``PKT_RX_`` flags will be removed, to support unified packet type
   from release 2.1. Those changes may be enabled in the upcoming release 2.1
   with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
+
+* librte_malloc library has been integrated into librte_eal. The 2.1 release
+  creates a dummy/empty malloc library to fulfill binaries with dynamic linking
+  dependencies on librte_malloc.so. Such dummy library will not be created from
+  release 2.2 so binaries will need to be rebuilt.