[RFC 7/7] eal: deprecate relaxed family of bit operations

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2024 14:53:28 +0100
Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/lib/eal/include/rte_bitops.h b/lib/eal/include/rte_bitops.h
> index b5a9df5930..783dd0e1ee 100644
> --- a/lib/eal/include/rte_bitops.h
> +++ b/lib/eal/include/rte_bitops.h
> @@ -1179,6 +1179,10 @@ __RTE_GEN_BIT_ATOMIC_OPS(64)
>   *   The address holding the bit.
>   * @return
>   *   The target bit.
> + * @note
> + *   This function is deprecated. Use rte_bit_test32(),
> + *   rte_bit_once_test32(), or rte_bit_atomic_test32() instead,
> + *   depending on exactly what guarantees are required.
>   */
>  static inline uint32_t
>  rte_bit_relaxed_get32(unsigned int nr, volatile uint32_t *addr)

The DPDK process is:
	- mark these as deprecated in release notes of release N.
	- mark these as deprecated using __rte_deprecated in next LTS
	- drop these in LTS release after that.

Don't use notes for this.