From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by dpdk.space (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743A2A0096 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:36:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 451374CA7; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:36:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from proxy.6wind.com (host.76.145.23.62.rev.coltfrance.com [62.23.145.76]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882A13772 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:36:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from glumotte.dev.6wind.com. (unknown [10.16.0.195]) by proxy.6wind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78713295E77; Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:36:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Olivier Matz To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: John McNamara , Marko Kovacevic , Ferruh Yigit Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:36:25 +0200 Message-Id: <20190410083625.17989-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change for net defines/structs/funcs 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: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <20190410083625.bdkvImOBG4ewJilRmpt_dY7rlqKwcAXYPbv8WILhpYM@z> As discussed at techboard, the network definitions, structures and functions will be prefixed by 'rte_'. Link: http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-February/125033.html Link: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-April/129752.html Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index ba39c2d62..36bc21ff8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* network includes: Network structures, definitions and functions will + be prefixed by ``rte_`` to resolve conflicts with libc headers. + This change will break many DPDK APIs. + * 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 -- 2.11.0