ethdev: remove new to old offloads API helpers

[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 d9d7e92..51d8b13 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
@@ -47,23 +37,6 @@ 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 ops to customize required memory chunk calculation,
-    customize objects population and allocate contiguous
-    block of objects if underlying driver supports it.
-
 * mbuf: The opaque ``mbuf->hash.sched`` field will be updated to support generic
   definition in line with the ethdev TM and MTR APIs. Currently, this field
   is defined in librte_sched in a non-generic way. The new generic format
@@ -73,10 +46,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   In the new API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads.
   Offloads are disabled by default and enabled per application request.
 
-  The old ethdev - drivers offload interface will be deprecated on 18.05.
-  This includes:
-  - removal of the conversion in ethdev from new offloading API to old API for drivers.
-
   In later releases the old offloading API will be deprecated, which will include:
   - removal of ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NO*`` flags.
   - removal of ``txq_flags`` field from ``rte_eth_txconf`` struct.
@@ -105,3 +74,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
   director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a
   global configuration setting and require explicit configuration.
+
+* pdump: As we changed to use generic IPC, some changes in APIs and structure
+  are expected in subsequent release.
+
+  - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed;
+  - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed;
+  - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed.