[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: postpone mempool ABI breakage

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: postpone mempool ABI breakage

[Thomas Monjalon]

It was planned to remove some mempool functions which are deprecated
since 16.07.
As no other mempool ABI change is planned in 16.11, it is better
to postpone and group every mempool ABI changes in 17.02.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 1b953fe..96db661 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -41,15 +41,14 @@ Deprecation Notices
   PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and
   their behavior will be kept in 16.07 and will be removed in 16.11.
 
-* The APIs rte_mempool_count and rte_mempool_free_count are being deprecated
-  on the basis that they are confusing to use - free_count actually returns
-  the number of allocated entries, not the number of free entries as expected.
-  They are being replaced by rte_mempool_avail_count and
-  rte_mempool_in_use_count respectively.
+* mempool: The functions ``rte_mempool_count`` and ``rte_mempool_free_count``
+  will be removed in 17.02.
+  They are replaced by ``rte_mempool_avail_count`` and
+  ``rte_mempool_in_use_count`` respectively.
 
-* The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and
-  will be removed in 16.11.
-  It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions.
+* mempool: The functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated
+  and will be removed in 17.02.
+  It is replaced by ``rte_mempool_generic_get/put`` functions.
 
 * The ``rte_ivshmem`` feature (including library and EAL code) will be removed
   in 16.11 because it has some design issues which are not planned to be fixed.
-- 
2.7.0

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: postpone mempool ABI breakage

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-07-29 15:41, Thomas Monjalon:
> It was planned to remove some mempool functions which are deprecated
> since 16.07.
> As no other mempool ABI change is planned in 16.11, it is better
> to postpone and group every mempool ABI changes in 17.02.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>

Applied