Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] doc: add deprecation notice for change of rawdev APIs

[Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>]

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Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] doc: add deprecation notice for change of rawdev APIs
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] doc: add deprecation notice for change of rawdev APIs

Add to the documentation for 20.08 a notice about the changes of rawdev APIs proposed by patchset [1].

[1] https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Finbox.dpdk.org%2Fdev%2F20200709152047.167730-1-bruce.richardson%40intel.com%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Chemant.agrawal%40nxp.com%7Cad3a0b27e46648a250d108d82eab80a3%7C686ea1d3bc2b4c6fa92cd99c5c301635%7C0%7C0%7C637310661421942508&amp;sdata=DdzY9DbZwYzLjQasNhDKxxSSpFgbCc%2Foh9NZR1ksuB8%3D&amp;reserved=0

Cc: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
Cc: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index ead7cbe43..21b00103e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
   break the ABI checks, that is why change is planned for 20.11.
   The list of internal APIs are mainly ones listed in ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``.
 
+* rawdev: The rawdev APIs which take a device-specific structure as
+  parameter directly, or indirectly via a "private" pointer inside 
+another
+  structure, will be modified to take an additional parameter of the
+  structure size. The affected APIs will include 
+``rte_rawdev_info_get``,
+  ``rte_rawdev_configure``, ``rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get`` and
+  ``rte_rawdev_queue_setup``.
+
 * traffic manager: All traffic manager API's in ``rte_tm.h`` were mistakenly made
   ABI stable in the v19.11 release. The TM maintainer and other contributors have
   agreed to keep the TM APIs as experimental in expectation of additional spec
--
2.25.1

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