[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: deprication notice to mark tm spec as experimental

[Nithin Dabilpuram]

From: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>

Based on the discussion in mail thread, it is concluded that
all traffic manager API's (rte_tm.h) need to be marked experimental
till few more releases to support further improvements to spec.

https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/164970.html

Adding deprication notice for the same in advance.

Signed-off-by: Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 1339f54..2c76f36 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -118,3 +118,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11.
   In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running
   scripts with Python 2.
+
+* traffic manager: All traffic manager API's in ``rte_tm.h`` were mistakenly made
+  abi stable in the v19.11 release. The TM maintainer and other contributor's have
+  agreed to keep the TM API's as experimental in expectation of additional spec
+  improvements. Therefore, all API's in ``rte_tm.h`` will be marked back as
+  experimental in v20.11 DPDK release. For more details, please see `the thread
+  <https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/164970.html>`_.
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