[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add kernel version deprecation notice

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 01/31/2018 04:27 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Notify users of upcoming change in kernel requirement.
> Encourage users to use current LTS kernel version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
>   doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index d59ad598862b..31d64b27ba17 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ 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.
> +
> +* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current minimum required
> +  version for the DPDK) will be end of life in May 2018. Therefore the planned
> +  minimum required kernel version for DPDK 18.5 will be next oldest Long
> +  Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.10. The recommended kernel version is
> +  the latest LTS kernel which currently is 4.14.
> 

Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>

Maxime