From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FD4CF3187 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:35:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DA7402EB; Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:35:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [192.198.163.7]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA7240262 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:35:42 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1763548543; x=1795084543; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references: mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Xjvls6fULvkTZRFDOdfWC5Txu4jWT15Qkz2bCJYPrKE=; b=blDpugXcaY7KUl3thboX70ev6cul++HL3Bs69AulGep9ZQnVgwCA8+uh FSPm/5Zc6p/wbphDy1IvLLMtjXASfPP20T+DzkerPtqkr3fX2uaSNBfVL XMc9UitqMkZ2gEla/P2zSTl33eRS8ISXPBHw3w7L69QycxDTJqByAhCcq 0WHLYb2/c9cifGGukt3ypDppbcRD5w6DqZ9693WSgzY4AxFwdQ7KwA1mg VLaVohAebNvMd0D4A0fjNC7B4ERhbShhAG7B086vDOceZYHG3sSlZxGkn YlAiXVUBs3oV/hsY6Mf+62lNvpz5k1jW7flkvC9aksvzPLxki2Ccrj0HE A==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: xKZi7/EJQeyVn619YI5CIQ== X-CSE-MsgGUID: 5yock8ZsRyyQeeZ6yD1Sag== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11617"; a="91060584" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.19,315,1754982000"; d="scan'208";a="91060584" Received: from orviesa009.jf.intel.com ([10.64.159.149]) by fmvoesa101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Nov 2025 02:35:43 -0800 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: c2LhA9u2Snqp0RoYVPSP9Q== X-CSE-MsgGUID: KKa9ZdzcQPCuqdJ3IEXsrw== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.19,315,1754982000"; d="scan'208";a="190816850" Received: from silpixa00401119.ir.intel.com ([10.20.224.206]) by orviesa009.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2025 02:35:42 -0800 From: Anatoly Burakov To: dev@dpdk.org Subject: [PATCH v1 2/2] doc: add deprecation notice for vDPA driver API Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:35:38 +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 55d3837150..b63dc8b715 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -151,3 +151,6 @@ 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