doc: announce marking ethdev internal symbol

The APIs are marked in the doxygen comment but better to mark the
symbols too. This is planned for v20.11 release.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 74f8c34..a58a179 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   Existing ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_status`` and ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status``
   APIs can be used as replacement.
 
+* ethdev: Some internal APIs for driver usage are exported in the .map file.
+  Now DPDK has ``__rte_internal`` marker so we can mark internal APIs and move
+  them to the INTERNAL block in .map. Although these APIs are internal it will
+  break the ABI checks, that is why change is planned for 20.11.
+  The list of internal APIs are mainly ones listed in ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``.
+
 * traffic manager: All traffic manager API's in ``rte_tm.h`` were mistakenly made
   ABI stable in the v19.11 release. The TM maintainer and other contributors have
   agreed to keep the TM APIs as experimental in expectation of additional spec