From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com [148.163.129.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924881CB59 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2018 11:22:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Proofpoint Essentials engine Received: from webmail.solarflare.com (uk.solarflare.com [193.34.186.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (Proofpoint Essentials ESMTP Server) with ESMTPS id 5344B10005E; Sat, 7 Apr 2018 09:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.38.17] (84.52.114.114) by ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1044.25; Sat, 7 Apr 2018 10:22:43 +0100 To: Adrien Mazarguil , Thomas Monjalon , Ferruh Yigit , References: <20180404150312.12304-1-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> <20180406131736.19145-1-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> <20180406131736.19145-4-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> From: Andrew Rybchenko Message-ID: <47ded95f-f872-f7ec-cddf-324174c90354@solarflare.com> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 12:22:39 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180406131736.19145-4-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB X-Originating-IP: [84.52.114.114] X-ClientProxiedBy: ocex03.SolarFlarecom.com (10.20.40.36) To ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-11.0.0.1191-8.100.1062-23768.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No--4.292600-0.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: Yes X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No X-MDID: 1523092969-FsuvlpK5fKjO Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/15] doc: remove flow API migration section 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: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 09:22:49 -0000 On 04/06/2018 04:25 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > This section has become less relevant since the flow API (rte_flow) is now > a mature DPDK API with applications developed directly on top of it instead > of an afterthought. > > This patch removes it for the following reasons: > > - It has never been updated to track the latest changes in the legacy > filter types and never will. > > - Many provided examples are theoretical and misleading since PMDs do not > implement them. Others are obvious. > > - Upcoming work on the flow API will alter the behavior of several pattern > items, actions and in some cases, flow rules, which will in turn cause > existing examples to be wrong. > > Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil > --- > doc/guides/prog_guide/rte_flow.rst | 298 -------------------------------- > 1 file changed, 298 deletions(-) Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko