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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of rawdev exposed
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23/11/2018 17:32, Jerin Jacob:
> From: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
> > 
> > rte_rawdevs is expected to be deprecated in future releases. This is
> > not expected to be directly used, without API access that is, by any
> > external application or driver.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>

There are not enoughs acks for this change.
Anyway, you should first make this array useless by removing any access
from rte_rawdev_pmd.h. Then you will be able to deprecate it from public API.