Re: [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS

[Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@oss.nxp.com>]

On 12-Jul-23 3:51 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
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> 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(+)
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>> 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
>>
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
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> Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
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