ethdev: remove detachable device flag

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
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--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
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@@ -78,6 +78,17 @@ New Features
   Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software
   fallback support for traffic management.
 
+* **Added support for NXP DPAA Devices.**
+
+  Added support for NXP's DPAA devices - LS104x series. This includes:
+
+  * DPAA Bus driver
+  * DPAA Mempool driver for supporting offloaded packet memory pool
+  * DPAA PMD for DPAA devices
+
+  See the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details of
+  this new driver.
+
 * **nfp: Added PF support.**
 
   Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is
@@ -273,6 +284,12 @@ API Changes
   The size of internal device name is increased to 64 characters
   to allow for storing longer bus specific name.
 
+* **Ethdev flag RTE_ETH_DEV_DETACHABLE was removed**
+
+  This flag is not necessary anymore, with the new hotplug implementation.
+  It is now removed from the ether library. Its semantic is expressed at the bus
+  and PMD level.
+
 * **Service cores API updated for usability**
 
   The service cores API has been changed, removing pointers from the API