[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] [PATCH v3 00/10] rename blacklist/whitelist to block/allow

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Sep 22 18:16:58 CEST 2020


22/09/2020 16:28, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:01:27 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> > 14/07/2020 07:33, Stephen Hemminger:
> > > On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:06:11 +0200
> > > David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > About deprecating existing API/EAL flags in this release, this should
> > > > go through the standard deprecation process.
> > > > I would go with introducing new options + full compatibility + a
> > > > deprecation notice in the 20.08 release.
> > > > The actual deprecation/API flagging will go in 20.11.
> > > > Removal will come later.  
> > > 
> > > Like Make deprecation for 20.08 will leave the flags but add nag.
> > > Want to make full removal in 20.11. Otherwise it will end up being 21.11
> > > which is too far out.  
> > 
> > Excuse me I may lack a bit of context.
> > Are you asking for removing some EAL options without following
> > the deprecation process?
> 
> These were in the 20.08 deprecation notice.

Do you mean this?
"
  The ``master-lcore`` argument to testpmd will be replaced
  with ``initial-lcore``. The old ``master-lcore`` argument
  will produce a runtime notification in 20.11 release, and
  be removed completely in a future release.
"




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