X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Fdeprecation.rst;h=52058f5806ab98d3d040a4e139e86d97b5344552;hb=effd3b9fcf3841869e5035ac08ff25b1807c3f15;hp=45eb5c4a99a5e47a3188ef099a9671f0123fb0a0;hpb=f8244c6399d9fae6afab6770ae367aef38742ea5;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 45eb5c4a99..52058f5806 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count`` - ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse`` -* eal: the support of Xen dom0 will be removed from EAL in 17.11; and with - that, drivers/net/xenvirt and examples/vhost_xen will also be removed. - * eal: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 to make DPDK aware of IOVA address translation scheme. Reference to phys address in EAL data-structure or functions may change to @@ -44,15 +41,6 @@ Deprecation Notices PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and their behavior will be kept until 17.08 and will be removed in 17.11. -* mempool: The following will be modified in 17.11: - - - ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage`` need to know - the mempool flag status so adding new param rte_mempool in those API. - - Removing __rte_unused int flag param from ``rte_mempool_generic_put`` - and ``rte_mempool_generic_get`` API. - - ``rte_mempool`` flags data type will changed from int to - unsigned int. - * ethdev: Tx offloads will no longer be enabled by default in 17.11. Instead, the ``rte_eth_txmode`` structure will be extended with bit field to enable each Tx offload. @@ -76,10 +64,6 @@ Deprecation Notices done by the EAL and not by the ``ethdev`` layer anymore. Users relying on this flag being present only have to remove their checks to follow the change. -* ethdev: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure rte_eth_dev_data. - The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to - 64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field. - * ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and ``rte_eth_dev`` respectively to support security operations like @@ -100,12 +84,6 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init`` -* cryptodev: the following function will have an extra parameter, passing a - statically allocated crypto driver structure, instead of calling malloc, - in 17.11: - - - ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver`` - * librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles. Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter.