[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 20.08 4/6] doc: announce deprecation blacklist/whitelist

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:45:19 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 05:58:02PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Announce upcoming changes for 20.11.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index 7c60779f3e68..abfec0aeaa4b 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -165,3 +165,24 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >  
> >    The ``master-lcore`` argument to testpmd will be replaced
> >    with ``initial-lcore``.
> > +
> > +* eal: The terms blacklist and whitelist to describe devices used
> > +  by DPDK will be replaced in the 20.11 relase.
> > +  This will apply to command line arguments as well as macros.
> > +
> > +  The macro ``RTE_DEV_BLACKLISTED`` will be replaced with ``RTE_DEV_EXCLUDED``
> > +  and ``RTE_DEV_WHITELISTED`` will be replaced with ``RTE_DEV_INCLUDED``
> > +  ``RTE_BUS_SCAN_BLACKLIST`` and ``RTE_BUS_SCAN_WHITELIST`` will be
> > +  replaced with ``RTE_BUS_SCAN_EXCLUDED`` and ``RTE_BUS_SCAN_INCLUDED``
> > +  respectively. Likewise ``RTE_DEVTYPE_BLACKLISTED_PCI`` and
> > +  ``RTE_DEVTYPE_WHITELISTED_PCI`` will be replaced with
> > +  ``RTE_DEVTYPE_EXCLUDED`` and ``RTE_DEVTYPE_INCLUDED``.
> > +
> > +  The old macros will be marked as deprecated in 20.11 and removed
> > +  in the 21.11 release.
> > +  
> 
> Since these are macros and therefore not part of the ABI I think we can
> remove them sooner than 21.11. Therefore similar to the previous patch can
> we just use "future" relase rather than 21.11

If these are internal, we don't need to wrap them in 21.11.

> > +  The command line arguments to ``rte_eal_init`` will change from
> > +  ``-b, --pci-blacklist`` to ``-x, --exclude`` and
> > +  ``-w, --pci-whitelist`` to ``-i, --include``.
> > +  The old command line arguments will continue to be accepted in 20.11
> > +  but will cause a runtime error message.
> > --   
> 
> Error message, or warning message?

Some message to standard error and keep going.

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