doc: announce VFIO symbols renaming for export

Some vfio symbols need to be exported outside librte_eal.
For that, they need to be renamed to rte_* naming convention.

Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 82d1ce5..0d2d1bb 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change
   targets release 17.05.
 
+* vfio: Some functions are planned to be exported outside librte_eal in 17.05.
+  VFIO APIs like ``vfio_setup_device``, ``vfio_get_group_fd`` can be used by
+  subsystem other than EAL/PCI. For that, these need to be exported symbols.
+  Such APIs are planned to be renamed according to ``rte_*`` naming convention
+  and exported from librte_eal.
+
 * The PCI and VDEV subsystems will be converted as drivers of the new bus model.
   It will imply some EAL API changes in 17.05.