doc: announce common prefix for ethdev

[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 61fadef..d9c0e65 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -19,16 +19,23 @@ Deprecation Notices
 
 * rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This does
   not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures supported
-  in DPDK. DPDK will adopt C11 atomic operations semantics and provide wrappers
-  using C11 atomic built-ins. These wrappers must be used for patches that
-  need to be merged in 20.08 onwards. This change will not introduce any
-  performance degradation.
+  in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from
+  https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html. These
+  operations must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08 onwards.
+  This change will not introduce any performance degradation.
 
 * rte_smp_*mb: These APIs provide full barrier functionality. However, many
-  use cases do not require full barriers. To support such use cases, DPDK will
-  adopt C11 barrier semantics and provide wrappers using C11 atomic built-ins.
-  These wrappers must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08
-  onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation.
+  use cases do not require full barriers. To support such use cases, DPDK has
+  adopted atomic operations from
+  https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html. These
+  operations and a new wrapper ``rte_atomic_thread_fence`` instead of
+  ``__atomic_thread_fence`` must be used for patches that need to be merged in
+  20.08 onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation.
+
+* pci: To reduce unnecessary ABIs exposed by DPDK bus driver, "rte_bus_pci.h"
+  will be made internal in 21.11 and macros/data structures/functions defined
+  in the header will not be considered as ABI anymore. This change is inspired
+  by the RFC https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=17176.
 
 * lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple
   samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is
@@ -44,6 +51,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   us extending existing enum/define.
   One solution can be using a fixed size array instead of ``.*MAX.*`` value.
 
+* ethdev: Will add ``RTE_ETH_`` prefix to all ethdev macros/enums in v21.11.
+  Macros will be added for backward compatibility.
+  Backward compatibility macros will be removed on v22.11.
+  A few old backward compatibility macros from 2013 that does not have
+  proper prefix will be removed on v21.11.
+
 * ethdev: The flow director API, including ``rte_eth_conf.fdir_conf`` field,
   and the related structures (``rte_fdir_*`` and ``rte_eth_fdir_*``),
   will be removed in DPDK 20.11.