RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH] doc: announce DMA configuration structure changes

[Amit Prakash Shukla <amitprakashs@marvell.com>]

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH] doc: announce DMA configuration structure changes

From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@ marvell. com> Deprecate rte_dma_conf structure to allow for a more flexible configuration of DMA devices. The new structure will have a flags field instead of multiple boolean fields for each feature. 
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From: Pavan Nikhilesh <mailto:pbhagavatula@marvell.com>

Deprecate rte_dma_conf structure to allow for a more flexible
configuration of DMA devices.
The new structure will have a flags field instead of multiple
boolean fields for each feature.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <mailto:pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 36489f6e68..854db96c08 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -142,3 +142,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * bus/vmbus: Starting DPDK 25.11, all the vmbus API defined in
   ``drivers/bus/vmbus/rte_bus_vmbus.h`` will become internal to DPDK.
   Those API functions are used internally by DPDK core and netvsc PMD.
+
+* dmadev: The ``rte_dma_conf`` structure is updated to include a new field
+  ``rte_dma_conf::flags`` that should be used to configure dmadev features.
+  The existing field ``rte_dma_conf::enable_silent`` is removed and replaced
+  with the new flag ``RTE_DMA_CFG_FLAG_SILENT``, to configure silent mode
+  the flag should be set in ``rte_dma_conf::flags`` during device configuration.
-- 
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