Deprecation Notices
-------------------
-* eal: the following functions are deprecated starting from 17.05 and will
- be removed in 17.11:
-
- - ``rte_set_log_level``, replaced by ``rte_log_set_global_level``
- - ``rte_get_log_level``, replaced by ``rte_log_get_global_level``
- - ``rte_set_log_type``, replaced by ``rte_log_set_level``
- - ``rte_get_log_type``, replaced by ``rte_log_get_level``
-
* eal: several API and ABI changes are planned for ``rte_devargs`` in v17.11.
The format of device command line parameters will change. The bus will need
to be explicitly stated in the device declaration. The enum ``rte_devtype``
- ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
- ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse``
-* eal: the support of Xen dom0 will be removed from EAL in 17.11; and with
- that, drivers/net/xenvirt and examples/vhost_xen will also be removed.
-
-* eal: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 to make DPDK aware of IOVA address
- translation scheme.
- Reference to phys address in EAL data-structure or functions may change to
- IOVA address or more appropriate name.
- The change will be only for the name.
- Functional aspects of the API or data-structure will remain same.
-
-* The mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT and PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT are deprecated and
- are respectively replaced by PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED and
- PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and
- their behavior will be kept until 17.08 and will be removed in 17.11.
-
-* mempool: The following will be modified in 17.11:
+* pci: Several exposed functions are misnamed.
+ The following functions are deprecated starting from v17.11 and are replaced:
- - ``rte_mempool_xmem_size`` and ``rte_mempool_xmem_usage`` need to know
- the mempool flag status so adding new param rte_mempool in those API.
- - Removing __rte_unused int flag param from ``rte_mempool_generic_put``
- and ``rte_mempool_generic_get`` API.
- - ``rte_mempool`` flags data type will changed from int to
- unsigned int.
+ - ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
+ - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
+ - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp``
* ethdev: Tx offloads will no longer be enabled by default in 17.11.
Instead, the ``rte_eth_txmode`` structure will be extended with
Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
-* ethdev: The device flag advertizing hotplug capability
- ``RTE_ETH_DEV_DETACHABLE`` is not needed anymore and will be removed in
- v17.11.
- This capability is verified upon calling the relevant hotplug functions in EAL
- by checking that the ``unplug`` ops is set in the bus. This verification is
- done by the EAL and not by the ``ethdev`` layer anymore. Users relying on this
- flag being present only have to remove their checks to follow the change.
-
-* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.11 in all structures which include port_id
- definition such as "rte_eth_dev_data", "rte_port_ethdev_reader_params",
- "rte_port_ethdev_writer_params", and so on. The definition of port_id will be
- changed from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support more than 256 ports in
- DPDK. All APIs which have port_id parameter will be changed at the same time.
-
-* ethdev: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure rte_eth_dev_data.
- The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to
- 64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field.
-
-* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
- ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and
- ``rte_eth_dev`` respectively to support security operations like
- ipsec inline.
-
-* cryptodev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
- ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and
- ``rte_cryptodev`` respectively to support security protocol offloaded
- operations.
-
-* cryptodev: the following function is deprecated starting from 17.08 and will
- be removed in 17.11:
-
- - ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev``
-
-* cryptodev: the following function will be static in 17.11 and included
- by all crypto drivers, therefore, will not be public:
-
- - ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init``
-
-* cryptodev: the following function will have an extra parameter, passing a
- statically allocated crypto driver structure, instead of calling malloc,
- in 17.11:
-
- - ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver``
-
* librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles.
Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter.
-
-* librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables
- that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype.
- The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed
- (including the ``signature_offset`` parameter)
- and the "do-sig" versions renamed accordingly.
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