[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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