[PATCH v10 4/4] eal: deprecation notice for rte thread setname API

[Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>]

Notify deprecation of rte_thread_setname API, it will be removed as it
exposes platform-specific thread details. The functionality it provided
is now available via the new rte_lcore_set_name API.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index e18ac34..bae7441 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
   in the future. Applications can use ``devtools/cocci/func_or_ret.cocci``
   to update their code.
 
+* eal: The function ``rte_thread_setname`` is planned to be deprecated
+  starting with the 23.07 release subject to the replacement API
+  rte_thread_set_name being marked as stable and planned to be removed
+  by the 23.11 release.
+
 * rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This does
   not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures supported
   in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from
-- 
1.8.3.1