[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 8/9] doc: announce ABI change of librte_malloc

Sergio Gonzalez Monroy sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com
Tue Jul 14 10:57:12 CEST 2015


Announce the creation of dummy malloc library for 2.1 and removal of
such library, now integrated in librte_eal, for 2.2 release.

Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
index 931e785..76e0ae2 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices
 
 Deprecation Notices
 -------------------
-
 * Significant ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_dev to support up to
   1024 queues per port. This change will be in release 2.2.
   There is no backward compatibility planned from release 2.2.
@@ -24,3 +23,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
 
 * The Macros RTE_HASH_BUCKET_ENTRIES_MAX and RTE_HASH_KEY_LENGTH_MAX are
   deprecated and will be removed with version 2.2.
+
+* librte_malloc library has been integrated into librte_eal. The 2.1 release
+  creates a dummy/empty malloc library to fulfill binaries with dynamic linking
+  dependencies on librte_malloc.so. Such dummy library will not be created from
+  release 2.2 so binaries will need to be rebuilt.
-- 
1.9.3



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