[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] eal: remove unused --use-device option

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Mon Sep 22 15:49:38 CEST 2014


On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

>
> just a note here - This usage is great reflection of deprecation policy, we
> deprecated this back in the 1.6 time frame, left it around for the 1.7
> release,
> and remove it for the 1.8 release.  I'd love to add some deprecation
> functionality to the rte_compat stuff in my patch series on the list so
> that we
> can better announe the deprecation of features/flags/API's in a more
> general
> fashion.
>

My note here as well.
--use-device was broken anyway, since the option had disappeared from
getopt() call.
So I suppose the deprecation mechanism was not that necessary since no one
complained.


-- 
David Marchand


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