On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 05:31:48PM +0530, Shreyansh Jain wrote: > 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.
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>
