From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from proxy.6wind.com (host.76.145.23.62.rev.coltfrance.com [62.23.145.76]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996011B3C6 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:34:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from glumotte.dev.6wind.com. (unknown [10.16.0.195]) by proxy.6wind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C5012893C; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:32:29 +0100 (CET) From: Olivier Matz To: dev@dpdk.org, Neil Horman , John McNamara , Marko Kovacevic Cc: Kevin Wilson , Konstantin Ananyev Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:30:27 +0100 Message-Id: <20180129093027.16357-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce control mbuf removal X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:34:34 -0000 Link: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/069813.html Link: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/32041/ Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz --- 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