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

Olivier Matz olivier.matz at 6wind.com
Mon Jan 29 10:30:27 CET 2018


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>
---
 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



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