[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change for net defines/structs/funcs

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 10:36:25AM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
> As discussed at techboard, the network definitions, structures
> and functions will be prefixed by 'rte_'.
> 
> Link: http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-February/125033.html
> Link: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-April/129752.html
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ba39c2d62..36bc21ff8 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
>  Deprecation Notices
>  -------------------
>  
> +* network includes: Network structures, definitions and functions will
> +  be prefixed by ``rte_`` to resolve conflicts with libc headers.
> +  This change will break many DPDK APIs.
> +
>  * meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and building
>    DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards. For
>    those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson
> -- 
> 2.11.0
>