From d00c149791744a3f2f79210178557bee5e6278b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Monjalon Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 15:31:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce removal of old port count function The function rte_eth_dev_count() was marked as deprecated in DPDK 18.05 in commit d9a42a69febf ("ethdev: deprecate port count function"). It is planned to be removed after the next LTS release. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: David Marchand Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko Acked-by: Jerin Jacob --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index b777f9e2d5..b08c78eb4a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ Deprecation Notices naturally align the Ethernet header on receive and all known encapsulations preserve the alignment of the header. +* ethdev: The function ``rte_eth_dev_count`` will be removed in DPDK 20.02. + It is replaced by the function ``rte_eth_dev_count_avail``. + If the intent is to iterate over ports, ``RTE_ETH_FOREACH_*`` macros + are better port iterators. + * ethdev: the legacy filter API, including ``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR, -- 2.20.1