From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shreyansh Jain Subject: [PATCH] doc: deprecation note for renaming vfio symbols for exporting Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:31:48 +0530 Message-ID: <1486987308-28647-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: , , Shreyansh Jain To: Return-path: Received: from NAM01-BY2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2nam01on0088.outbound.protection.outlook.com [104.47.34.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702C22C4B for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 12:57:02 +0100 (CET) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Some vfio symbols need to be exported outside librte_eal. For that, they need to be renamed to rte_* naming convention. Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain --- 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 b12d435..092eb2e 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -61,3 +61,9 @@ Deprecation Notices PMDs that implement the latter. Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most PMDs have switched to rte_flow. + +* Some vfio APIs are planned to be exported outside librte_eal in 17.05. + vfio APIs like ``vfio_setup_device``, ``vfio_get_group_fd`` can be used by + subsystem other than EAL/PCI. For that, these need to be exported symbols. + Such APIs are planned to be renamed according to ``rte_*`` naming convention + and exported from librte_eal. -- 2.7.4