[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] doc: announce API change for mempool IOVA populate

[Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>]

Starting from v20.05, rte_mempool_populate_iova() will return
-ENOBUFS. The ABI will be preserved through symbol versioning until
20.11.

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
---
 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 afa94b43e..e11c7f436 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -86,3 +86,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
   to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized.
   In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first
   (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change.
+
+* mempool: starting from v20.05, the API of rte_mempool_populate_iova()
+  and rte_mempool_populate_virt() will change to return 0 instead
+  of -EINVAL when there is not enough room to store one object. The ABI
+  will be preserved until 20.11.
-- 
2.20.1