doc: announce parameter change of a service API function

rte_service_attr_get() is passed a uint32_t * to retrieve
an attribute value, this will be changed to uin64_t * as per
patch posted at http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/49968/

Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 9f6a47d..e91a1bb 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
   for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
 
+* eal: The ``attr_value`` parameter of ``rte_service_attr_get()``
+  will be changed from ``uint32_t *`` to ``uint64_t *``
+  as the attributes are of type ``uint64_t``.
+
 * eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.11.
   New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
   device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the