rte_bus is unnecessarily exposed in the public API/ABI. Besides, we had cases where extending rte_bus was necessary. Announce that rte_bus will be made opaque in the public API and mark associated API as internal.
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> --- A RFC series of the intended changes is available at: https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=23811&state=%2A&archive=both --- 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 64d649777a..a9fd6676be 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ Deprecation Notices ``__atomic_thread_fence`` must be used for patches that need to be merged in 20.08 onwards. This change will not introduce any performance degradation. +* bus: The ``rte_bus`` object will be made opaque in DPDK 22.11. + The goal is to remove it from the public ABI and make this object extendable. + As a side effect, registering a bus will be marked as an internal API: + external users may still register their bus using a new driver header (see + ``enable_driver_sdk`` meson option). + * mempool: Helper macro ``MEMPOOL_HEADER_SIZE()`` is deprecated and will be removed in DPDK 22.11. The replacement macro ``RTE_MEMPOOL_HEADER_SIZE()`` is internal only. -- 2.36.1
