[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of dpaa2 exposed mem structure

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 11/15/18 2:29 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote:
> rte_dpaa2_memsegs is no more required once the dpaax (pa-va) translation
> library has been introduced. This can be made internal (for fallback
> operations) in subsequent release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain at nxp.com>
> ---
>   This diff was generated over a previous patch on same file (a para
>   before) [1] - so, it might not apply in case [1] is missed.
>   It is possible to merge this and [1] as well, if that makes better sense.
> 
>   [1] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/48118/
> 
>   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 776b9b245..a2c0d21bc 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -60,3 +60,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>     Currently this is exposed from the library. Ideally, no application should
>     be directly using it. This is expected to be deprecated and made internal
>     in v19.02 or later.
> +
> +* dpaa2: removal of ``rte_dpaa2_memsegs`` structure which has been replaced
> +  by a pa-va search library. This structure was earlier being used for holding
> +  memory segments used by dpaa2 driver for faster pa->va translation. This
> +  structure would be made internal (or removed if all dependencies are cleared)
> +  in future releases.
> 

Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>