doc: announce renaming of ethdev library

The right name of ethdev should be dpdk_netdev. However:
1/ We are using rte_ prefix in the code and library names.
2/ The API uses rte_ethdev
That's why 16.11 will just have the rte_ prefix prepended to
the library filename as every other libraries.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 0967e65..120a95e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * The log history is deprecated.
   It is voided in 16.07 and will be removed in release 16.11.
 
+* The ethdev library file will be renamed from libethdev.* to librte_ethdev.*
+  in release 16.11 in order to have a more consistent namespace.
+
 * The ethdev hotplug API is going to be moved to EAL with a notification
   mechanism added to crypto and ethdev libraries so that hotplug is now
   available to both of them. This API will be stripped of the device arguments