Re: [PATCH] doc: announce ethdev operation struct changes

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

28/07/2023 16:56, Thomas Monjalon:
> 04/07/2023 10:10, Feifei Wang:
> > To support mbufs recycle mode, announce the coming ABI changes
> > from DPDK 23.11.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Feifei Wang <feifei.wang2@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index 66431789b0..c7e1ffafb2 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >    The legacy actions should be removed
> >    once ``MODIFY_FIELD`` alternative is implemented in drivers.
> >  
> > +* ethdev: The Ethernet device data structure ``struct rte_eth_dev`` and
> > +  the fast-path ethdev flat array ``struct rte_eth_fp_ops`` will be updated
> > +  with new fields to support mbufs recycle mode from DPDK 23.11.
> 
> It does seem to be an impacting change for existing applications,

I meant "It does NOT seem"

> except that it is allowed only during ABI breakage window.
> 
> I think my patch should be enough:
> https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230728142946.1201459-1-thomas@monjalon.net/

This deprecation notice is marked as superseded,
given my patch above should be enough.