Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 14:41 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> + Marco and Christian to ensure I get the most distro awareness.

-Marco +Nirvoy - Nirvoy is the current maintainer of DPDK in SUSE

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:37:13AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Add a notice in the deprecation section of the release notes to
> > call out
> > the fact that the minimum supported meson version for DPDK will
> > change
> > from 19.05 onwards.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index d4aea4b46..92524e4e3 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >    Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility
> > for
> >    recent distribution kernels will be kept.
> >  
> > +* meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring
> > and building
> > +  DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05
> > onwards. For
> > +  those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy
> > of meson
> > +  can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading
> > python
> > +  packages.
> > +
> >  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new
> > parameter
> >    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match 
> > case.
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.20.1
> > 

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi