[PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 7/12/2023 11:18 AM, Sivaprasad Tummala wrote:
> To allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage,
> RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11 release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sivaprasad Tummala <sivaprasad.tummala at amd.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 8e1cdd677a..92db59d9c2 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    the replacement API rte_thread_set_name and rte_thread_create_control being
>    marked as stable, and planned to be removed by the 23.11 release.
>  
> +* eal: RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11 release. This is
> +  to allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage.
> +
>  * rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This does
>    not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures supported
>    in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from
>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>