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[v3,6/6] doc: deprecation notice for VFIO DMA map APIs

Message ID e869a1cc6dbf94b0a229b5068c31b65ef872d5e3.1551793527.git.shahafs@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Series introduce DMA memory mapping for external memory |

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Shahaf Shuler March 5, 2019, 1:59 p.m. UTC 
  As those should be replaced by rte_dev_dma_map and rte_dev_dma_unmap
APIs.

Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst | 2 +-
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst            | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
index 929d76dba7..ec2fe65523 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@  The expected workflow is as follows:
     - If IOVA table is not specified, IOVA addresses will be assumed to be
       unavailable
     - Other processes must attach to the memory area before they can use it
-* Perform DMA mapping with ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` if needed
+* Perform DMA mapping with ``rte_dev_dma_map`` if needed
 * Use the memory area in your application
 * If memory area is no longer needed, it can be unregistered
     - If the area was mapped for DMA, unmapping must be performed before
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 1b4fcb7e64..48ec4fee88 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@  Deprecation Notices
 
     + ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
 
+* vfio: removal of ``rte_vfio_dma_map`` and ``rte_vfio_dma_unmap`` APIs which
+  have been replaced with ``rte_dev_dma_map`` and ``rte_dev_dma_unmap``
+  functions.  The due date for the removal targets DPDK 20.02.
+
 * pci: Several exposed functions are misnamed.
   The following functions are deprecated starting from v17.11 and are replaced: