[PATCH v2 02/19] doc: add deprecation notice for vDPA driver API

Anatoly Burakov
2025-11-14T17:40:52Z

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 <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
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.
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