doc: announce API removal from ethdev

In 17.02 five rte_eth_dev_set_vf_*** functions will be removed
from librte_ether, renamed and moved to the ixgbe PMD.

Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.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 c4b1de7..a1e5221 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -34,6 +34,19 @@ Deprecation Notices
   ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int``
   instead of ``void`` and a fourth parameter ``void *ret_param`` will be added.
 
+* ethdev: for 17.02 it is planned to deprecate the following five functions
+  and move them in ixgbe:
+
+  ``rte_eth_dev_set_vf_rxmode``
+
+  ``rte_eth_dev_set_vf_rx``
+
+  ``rte_eth_dev_set_vf_tx``
+
+  ``rte_eth_dev_set_vf_vlan_filter``
+
+  ``rte_eth_set_vf_rate_limit``
+
 * ABI changes are planned for 17.02 in the ``rte_mbuf`` structure: some fields
   may be reordered to facilitate the writing of ``data_off``, ``refcnt``, and
   ``nb_segs`` in one operation, because some platforms have an overhead if the