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 BBA3748B41; Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:29:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4807C402E7; Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:29:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [192.198.163.14]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B511A4027D for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:29:29 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1763483370; x=1795019370; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references: mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=idh/xhzeG3asr41E/uoa0dln/1WOsR6FrNZ4FNEnsb4=; b=a2TpIAPMK7l7cbJwoWZ9YpI0+pILDL2T8w++0z9dhhej2kI0XgysMnY2 dyBRM/L+eWlh88E0QJ3LBltqMNV0UMsApgVNxRUCTLRFODZ7WHRuA99gG TtmyMr+LG4Ezq5OAoP++HuswNM4+Jma5Ql4IuRVpZJ8VCSi953n8bqBru eKpt85GWeptLsA7t16JwtILeN1Sh5fPnzUmWQhP3EP+cRM6IGys4fqqRi mQEiceCrhoNv6ce44crf1sEjq64loOqi3AyMpKee+ymzgR66R5f5NN/cF FBZqjy8Hq1z3rNHNsmNdPesRUCN0v4+dxnhxliFTmhofageHG23SBkr3C w==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: j7vmDaZ+Rz2XPpHSXclSlw== X-CSE-MsgGUID: EMGbzxYcTd2hrkJhwiptHw== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11617"; a="65550583" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.19,314,1754982000"; d="scan'208";a="65550583" Received: from fmviesa003.fm.intel.com ([10.60.135.143]) by fmvoesa108.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 18 Nov 2025 08:29:29 -0800 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: KG0pGNKEQGOKJ+j7e+NHJg== X-CSE-MsgGUID: qxJiWmYlSjm1zAueCqrBhw== X-ExtLoop1: 1 Received: from silpixa00401119.ir.intel.com ([10.20.224.206]) by fmviesa003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Nov 2025 08:29:28 -0800 From: Anatoly Burakov To: dev@dpdk.org Subject: [PATCH v3 02/20] doc: add deprecation notice for vDPA driver API Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:29:03 +0000 Message-ID: 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