From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62AC448B0C; Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:40:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501A7410ED; Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:40:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [198.175.65.15]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423E840288 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:40:37 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1763142037; x=1794678037; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references: mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=idh/xhzeG3asr41E/uoa0dln/1WOsR6FrNZ4FNEnsb4=; b=Lm9XBPHSsCiyGx6hkDfELbJaN7yo9WTPGPkPNFg23VGJwsWxRjX1Iwcl Uwc29Z2G12ZlFYqGeUUqBPtWqEtP3D1c6whjQfO9UnNylaFD+0vmg6yWt hcu8rzbEeKAfP3DHJ+Ba32Y2mWuplINv1Cil2cJU3ZrqAr7K1537NccjB 3nnlY2+852ZEh+nkTMBWPppuZvpuK3rMAELR6TLU62wveJw247NXcp3kh 14SfPMECor6IRGUraHNm9kpF/A/3hL/Vq65VebZQmCjCT10AZah1TS4Cx GJ1Xwq0lB00Vq6et8sEp5D1OCgsyFBwSZq8hnp4NFU+jFYLMdUbl+2inn g==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: jaieGU1tRgim9BKzeOOWaw== X-CSE-MsgGUID: LhX7Ilc0SWmDFJeNUfaxWw== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11613"; a="68864253" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.19,305,1754982000"; d="scan'208";a="68864253" Received: from orviesa009.jf.intel.com ([10.64.159.149]) by orvoesa107.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 14 Nov 2025 09:40:36 -0800 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: 4ySTs89UT2a7CRA9V/kUWA== X-CSE-MsgGUID: QW2+rz7YREaH0iHRXBSu9g== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.19,305,1754982000"; d="scan'208";a="189650720" Received: from silpixa00401119.ir.intel.com ([10.20.224.206]) by orviesa009.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 14 Nov 2025 09:40:36 -0800 From: Anatoly Burakov To: dev@dpdk.org Subject: [PATCH v2 02/19] doc: add deprecation notice for vDPA driver API Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:40:12 +0000 Message-ID: <232e6e2f059b254e6953911ed869f3accb2da175.1763142007.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Currently, vDPA driver API is partly built around VFIO group API, which will be removed in a future release and replaced with a device container assignment API. Make this know in deprecation notice. Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 5e3df71048..e2c08387fe 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -162,3 +162,6 @@ Deprecation Notices * eal: The entire VFIO API (``rte_vfio_*``) will be made internal only, and will only be available to EAL and drivers. Group-based API (``rte_vfio_*_group_*``) will be removed and replaced with unified container device assignment API. This change will be made in 26.11 release. + +* vdpa: vDPA driver API will no longer offer ``get_vfio_group_fd`` as part of its internal API. + All drivers will be adjusted to use the new unified VFIO container device assignment API. -- 2.47.3