[PATCH v3 1/4] eal: deprecate old coremask-based EAL parameters

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 08:51:22AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri,  2 May 2025 16:11:31 +0100
> Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > As the number of cores/cpus on platforms has increased over the years,
> > the use of coremasks rather than core-lists for identifying DPDK cores
> > has become more and more unwieldy. At this point, let's deprecate the
> > coremask-based EAL parameters for future removal, and point users to the
> > core-list based versions instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> 
> Agree.
> 

Any chance of this agreement being an ack on the v3 patch [1]? :-)

/Bruce

[1] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20250527152913.279011-2-bruce.richardson@intel.com/