[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change on eal and kni

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 17:58:48 +0300
Arnon Warshavsky <arnon at qwilt.com> wrote:

These deprecation notices are unnecessary. These are not public API's.

> +* eal: Modify function return value for the sake of removing rte_panic
> +       from the init sequence in version 19.08.
> +  - In ``lib/librte_eal/common/eal_thread.h`` replace
> +    ``void eal_thread_init_master(unsigned lcore_id)``
> +    to return ``int``

This function is never exported (see rte_eal_version.map) and therefore be marked private to the EAL, and not a public API.


> +* kni: Modify function return value for the sake of removing rte_panic
> +       from the init sequence in version 19.08.
> +  - In ``lib/librte_kni/rte_kni_fifo.h`` replace
> +    ``static void kni_fifo_init(struct rte_kni_fifo *fifo, unsigned size)``
> +    to return ``int``

This is not a public API really so no deprecation needed.
It is just an include file used internally by library and the driver.