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

[Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>]

Hi,

Please, any other comments or acks for this one?

Thanks
Olivier


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@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
>