Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] stringfns: remove rte_snprintf

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2014-06-26 13:20, Aaron Campbell:
> On Jun 26, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com> 
wrote:
> >> I agree we should try to use the "deprecated" attribute when possible.
> >> So application porting effort will be smoother.
> >> 
> >> But in this case, there is something different: as Stephen wrote,
> >> rte_snprintf is useless. It's useless inside the DPDK so it's even more
> >> useless for user applications.
> >> As it's really useless, it has no sense to keep it as deprecated.
> >> Please, let's simply remove it.
> > 
> > The reason to keep it as deprecated is so that those customers who don't
> > want to do a huge amount of search-replace immediately can get things
> > working again temporarily using -Wno-deprecated. It provides a simple
> > temporary fallback cushion, and then we can completely remove the
> > function later. So, I'd like to see us remove all our usage of the
> > function internally in 1.7, along with marking as deprecated, and then
> > completely remove in 1.8, (i.e. in a week's time or so) :-)
> 
> As a DPDK user, I’d vote to kill it now.  I doubt it is widely used in any
> external applications.  Such usage would be mostly from copy/pasting the
> sample code, is my guess.

I think everybody understood the idea: we'll try to use deprecation model when 
possible.
In this case, it's probably useless but we close the discussion by deprecating 
it. We'll remove it soon, don't worry :)

-- 
Thomas