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To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>,
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25/10/2022 16:24, Ferruh Yigit пишет:
> On 10/25/2022 3:37 PM, David Marchand wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The flow_classify library has been out and marked experimental for a 
>> long time.
>> Its current maintainer is now leaving the community.
>>
>> The library did not get much traction: I am not aware of an opensource
>> project using it.
>>
>> Are there users of this library?
>>
>> If we deprecated it (to later drop it), do we already have some
>> replacement feature in DPDK?
> 
> +1 to remove it.
> 
> As far as I remember initially it started as underlying work to provide 
> stats with common standards like IPFIX.
> But not sure if next stage ever happened.

Yep, it didn't work.
Agree to deprecate/remove.