From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C181B1EA; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:45:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBCA26F7E; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 13:45:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 24 Nov 2018 13:45:03 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=mesmtp; bh=k9epeHlSZG Y9VGE2BTulBbFLEoX1dXaCv7CnMhrvYkE=; b=hKd0NgPZOCjQJn2HOxsHyIxn5g 96MV8F0R/Z/8uyCXxOii24dSoTQf/6GllqHS2X/cXXF5m0QerDW+kdiJd+5sr1Er YtDle9KfvZqm4vg7ipfQZWUD2ruX/M0Trm18XUpeiYSD/ncTzy7wybtNepK9f/1P X/W/yEsSbKEoVOtnA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:date:from :in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to :x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; bh=k9epeHlSZGY9VGE2BTulBbFLEoX1dXaCv7CnMhrvYkE=; b=LXfoOBli 3jUHs0GjqZJp6DFXHuQHpafSTiMDguN1FvwlPFA7G09HGmtz6lZa/tSek8b7AjRs wcx17RwW+rE0jDhqgli1iJVcjGgAzEk7O1o4LVBSdCB/xbg6MZJeRdm0QyCdXeOz ioJ1HI1K8Rjz94OsCes0aQ2GJblIf6QyqyW8cZ5KVrz0nuRDfI6m+Y/h0p4w6jL1 sjvss1ONek85YZz8Ulo6LvF8dDPfBizgaiQPGmjZDrtrb/tAMYKJRM9srxD0Wi9U MTUyI4Ei7crJIhtaWeBSj3v4Avl+wEGpk/17Ag9j3V/Glhr41A976Jx9RrIEOqsX qjB9inhcZsDLdw== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.monjalon.net (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 55610102E8; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 13:45:02 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: ktraynor@redhat.com, techboard@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:44:54 +0100 Message-Id: <20181124184454.19071-1-thomas@monjalon.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.19.0 In-Reply-To: <20180131152709.13853-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> References: <20180131152709.13853-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce Linux support change X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 18:45:04 -0000 It was agreed by the Technical Board to increase the minimal supported Linux version, and written in Linux guide. An announce was missing in the deprecation notices. Fixes: 8c58f1b83759 ("doc: note minimun Linux version increase for 19.02") Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- v2: This is a revised version of the deprecation proposed by Stephen in January, and discussed/changed/approved in 18.11. Already applied. --- 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 55a4c4089..b48486d36 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current minimum required + version for the DPDK) is not maintained anymore. Therefore the planned + minimum required kernel version for DPDK 19.02 will be the next oldest + Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for + recent distribution kernels will be kept. + * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case. -- 2.19.0