[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: deprication notice to mark tm spec as experimental

[Ray Kinsella]

On 05/05/2020 09:07, Nithin Dabilpuram wrote:
> From: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>
> 
> Based on the discussion in mail thread, it is concluded that
> all traffic manager API's (rte_tm.h) need to be marked experimental
> till few more releases to support further improvements to spec.
> 
> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/164970.html
> 
> Adding deprication notice for the same in advance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 1339f54..2c76f36 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -118,3 +118,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11.
>    In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running
>    scripts with Python 2.
> +
> +* traffic manager: All traffic manager API's in ``rte_tm.h`` were mistakenly made
> +  abi stable in the v19.11 release. The TM maintainer and other contributor's have
> +  agreed to keep the TM API's as experimental in expectation of additional spec
> +  improvements. Therefore, all API's in ``rte_tm.h`` will be marked back as
> +  experimental in v20.11 DPDK release. For more details, please see `the thread
> +  <https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/164970.html>`_.
> 

Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr at ashroe.eu>