From: Chenbo Xia Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 08:41:31 +0000 (+0800) Subject: doc: announce removal of PCI bus ABI X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=890f39739b207301639a981cefcb6eaa554d13f3;p=dpdk.git doc: announce removal of PCI bus ABI All ABIs in PCI bus driver, which are defined in rte_buc_pci.h, will be removed and the header will be made internal. Signed-off-by: Chenbo Xia Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit Acked-by: Bruce Richardson Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 92db9e14bb..4bc4d34e5c 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ Deprecation Notices ``__atomic_thread_fence`` must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08 onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation. +* pci: To reduce unnecessary ABIs exposed by DPDK bus driver, "rte_bus_pci.h" + will be made internal in 21.11 and macros/data structures/functions defined + in the header will not be considered as ABI anymore. This change is inspired + by the RFC https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=17176. + * lib: will fix extending some enum/define breaking the ABI. There are multiple samples in DPDK that enum/define terminated with a ``.*MAX.*`` value which is used by iterators, and arrays holding these values are sized with this