From da51a6c942885245bf7a2aa905d0c0382a4fe210 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ferruh Yigit Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:49:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko Acked-by: Ray Kinsella Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 74f8c34e7b..a58a179463 100644 --- 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 -- 2.20.1