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Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] vhost: announce experimental tag removal of
vhost APIs

This patch announces the experimental tag removal of 10 vhost APIs,
which have been experimental for more than 2 years. All APIs could
be made stable in DPDK 21.11.

Signed-off-by: Chenbo Xia <redacted>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <redacted>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 9584d6bfd7..5d5b7884d7 100644

--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

@@ -147,3 +147,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * cmdline: ``cmdline`` structure will be made opaque to hide platform-

specific
   content. On Linux and FreeBSD, supported prior to DPDK 20.11,
   original structure will be kept until DPDK 21.11.
+
+* vhost: The experimental tags of
``rte_vhost_driver_get_protocol_features``,
+  ``rte_vhost_driver_get_queue_num``, ``rte_vhost_crypto_create``,
+  ``rte_vhost_crypto_free``, ``rte_vhost_crypto_fetch_requests``,
+  ``rte_vhost_crypto_finalize_requests``, ``rte_vhost_crypto_set_zero_copy``,
+  ``rte_vhost_va_from_guest_pa``, ``rte_vhost_extern_callback_register``,
+  and ``rte_vhost_driver_set_protocol_features`` APIs will be removed and
the
+  APIs will be made stable in DPDK 21.11.
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