Re: [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS

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

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 09:39:15AM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 7/12/2023 11:18 AM, Sivaprasad Tummala wrote:
> > To allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage,
> > RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11 release.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sivaprasad Tummala <sivaprasad.tummala@amd.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index 8e1cdd677a..92db59d9c2 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >    the replacement API rte_thread_set_name and rte_thread_create_control being
> >    marked as stable, and planned to be removed by the 23.11 release.
> >  
> > +* eal: RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11 release. This is
> > +  to allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage.
> > +
> >  * 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
> 
> +techboard,
> 
> Request for review/ack, patch is to remove ABI restriction to add new
> CPU flags.

Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>