[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce control mbuf removal

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:22:15AM +0100, Olivier Matz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please, any other comments or acks for this one?
> 
> Thanks
> Olivier

I would tend to support leaving the flag in place. Other than that, I
think the functions for it can go.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:30:27AM +0100, Olivier Matz wrote:
> > Link: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/069813.html
> > Link: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32041/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> > ---

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index d59ad5988..e98ce6a0a 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -59,3 +59,16 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >    be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the
> >    structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on
> >    platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms.
> > +
> > +* mbuf: The control mbuf API will be removed in v18.05. The impacted
> > +  functions and macros are:
> > +
> > +  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_init()``
> > +  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_alloc()``
> > +  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_free()``
> > +  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_data()``
> > +  - ``rte_ctrlmbuf_len()``
> > +  - ``rte_is_ctrlmbuf()``
> > +  - ``CTRL_MBUF_FLAG``
> > +
> > +  The packet mbuf API should be used as a replacement.
> > -- 
> > 2.11.0
> >