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[dpdk-dev,v1,3/4] doc: announce API change for flow RSS/RAW actions

Message ID 20180214152847.19774-4-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com (mailing list archive)
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Adrien Mazarguil Feb. 14, 2018, 3:37 p.m. UTC 
  C99-style flexible arrays were a bad idea for this API. This announces a
minor API/ABI change to remove them.

Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
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 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
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@@ -72,3 +72,8 @@  Deprecation Notices
   rte_eth_rss_conf`` due to its limitations. All parameters, including the
   currently missing hash function to use will be made part of ``struct
   rte_flow_action_rss`` directly.
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+* rte_flow: C99-style flexible arrays in ``struct rte_flow_action_rss`` and
+  ``struct rte_flow_item_raw`` will be replaced by standard pointers to the
+  same data. They proved difficult to use in the field (e.g. no possibility
+  of static initialization) and are unsuitable for C++ applications.