[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] pmd_ring: remove deprecated functions

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:52:16 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 09:51:11AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming at brocade.com>
> > 
> > These were deprecated in 2.0 so remove them from 2.1
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring.c           | 55 -------------------------------
> >  drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map |  4 +--
> >  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 58 deletions(-)
> >   
> [..snip..]
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map b/drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map
> > index 8ad107d..5ee55d9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map
> > @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
> > -DPDK_2.0 {
> > +DPDK_2.1 {
> >  	global:
> >  
> >  	rte_eth_from_rings;
> > -	rte_eth_ring_pair_attach;
> > -	rte_eth_ring_pair_create;
> >  
> >  	local: *;
> >  };  
> 
> [ABI newbie question] Is this how deprecating a fn is done? We no longer have any DPDK_2.0 
> version listings in the .map file?

Notice the version # changed as well, so linker will generate a new version.
The function was marked deprecated in last version.