From: Shreyansh Jain Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:01:48 +0000 (+0530) Subject: doc: announce VFIO symbols renaming for export X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~4479 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c27f182fc5ac755c327b354f26a97ee2d0678d2;p=dpdk.git 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 Acked-by: John McNamara Acked-by: Jerin Jacob Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 82d1ce5e50..0d2d1bb679 100644 --- 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.