Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] doc: remove dpdk iova aware notice

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

20/10/2017 14:31, Santosh Shukla:
> Removed dpdk iova aware ABI deprecation notice,
> and updated ABI change details in release_17.11.rst.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> ---
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> -* eal: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 to make DPDK aware of IOVA address
> -  translation scheme.
> -  Reference to phys address in EAL data-structure or functions may change to
> -  IOVA address or more appropriate name.
> -  The change will be only for the name.
> -  Functional aspects of the API or data-structure will remain same.

Sorry, this series cannot be applied as is because it is breaking
more than EAL API. The API of mbuf and mempool are also changed.
We need to choose one of these three options:
	1/ accept to break all API in 17.11
	2/ postpone the whole series to 18.02
	3/ rename only EAL API in 17.11 and postpone mbuf/mempool

One more comment:
For such a large change, we should provide a script in devtools
to help porting the applications. I suggest a sed script.