eal: make semantics of lcore role function more intuitive

[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 f4e6fe6..3353519 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -16,15 +16,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
 
   - removal of ``name`` and ``args`` fields.
   - The enum ``rte_devtype`` was used to identify a bus and will disappear.
-  - The ``rte_devargs_list`` will be made private.
   - Functions previously deprecated will change or disappear:
 
-    + ``rte_eal_devargs_add``
     + ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
-    + ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse``
     + ``rte_eal_devargs_parse`` will change its format and use.
-    + all ``rte_devargs`` related functions will be renamed, changing the
-      ``rte_eal_devargs_`` prefix to ``rte_devargs_``.
 
 * pci: Several exposed functions are misnamed.
   The following functions are deprecated starting from v17.11 and are replaced:
@@ -33,11 +28,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
   - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp``
 
-* eal: The semantics of the return value for the ``rte_lcore_has_role`` function
-  are planned to change in v18.05. The function currently returns 0 and <0 for
-  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: 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
@@ -48,18 +38,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   - ``rte_eal_mbuf_default_mempool_ops``
 
 * mempool: several API and ABI changes are planned in v18.05.
-  The following functions, introduced for Xen, which is not supported
-  anymore since v17.11, are hard to use, not used anywhere else in DPDK.
-  Therefore they will be deprecated in v18.05 and removed in v18.08:
-
-  - ``rte_mempool_xmem_create``
-  - ``rte_mempool_xmem_size``
-  - ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage``
 
   The following changes are planned:
 
-  - removal of ``get_capabilities`` mempool ops and related flags.
-  - substitute ``register_memory_area`` with ``populate`` ops.
   - addition of new op to allocate contiguous
     block of objects if underlying driver supports it.