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 <shreyansh.j...@nxp.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 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
