* kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
+* eal: The function ``rte_eal_remote_launch`` will return new error codes
+ after read or write error on the pipe, instead of calling ``rte_panic``.
+
* eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.11.
New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the
+ ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
+* eal: The ``rte_cpu_check_supported`` function has been deprecated since
+ v17.08 and will be removed.
+
* vfio: removal of ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_dma_unmap`` APIs which
have been replaced with ``rte_dev_dma_map`` and ``rte_dev_dma_unmap``
functions. The due date for the removal targets DPDK 20.02.
Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
-* kni: remove KNI ethtool support. To clarify, this is not to remove the KNI,
- but only to remove ethtool support of it that is disabled by default and
- can be enabled via ``CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD_ETHTOOL`` config option.
- Existing KNI ethtool implementation is only supported by ``igb`` & ``ixgbe``
- drivers, by using a copy of kernel drivers in DPDK. This model cannot be
- extended to all drivers in DPDK and it is too much effort to maintain
- kernel modules in DPDK. As a result users won't be able to use ``ethtool``
- via ``igb`` & ``ixgbe`` anymore.
-
-* cryptodev: New member in ``rte_cryptodev_config`` to allow applications to
- disable features supported by the crypto device. Only the following features
- would be allowed to be disabled this way,
-
- - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
- - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_ASYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
- - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SECURITY``
-
- Disabling unused features would facilitate efficient usage of HW/SW offload.
-
- - Member ``uint64_t ff_disable`` in ``rte_cryptodev_config``
-
- The field would be added in v19.08.
-
-* cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms
- structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and
- ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data``.
+* cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can
+ be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``,
+ ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal
+ to one it means it represents IV, when is set to zero it means J0 is used
+ directly, in this case 16 bytes of J0 need to be passed.
+
+* sched: To allow more traffic classes, flexible mapping of pipe queues to
+ traffic classes, and subport level configuration of pipes and queues
+ changes will be made to macros, data structures and API functions defined
+ in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the
+ RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html.
+
+* metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
+ in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.
+
+* power: ``rte_power_set_env`` function will no longer return 0 on attempt
+ to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized.
+ In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first
+ (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change.