[PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS

[Kevin Traynor]

On 25/07/2023 09:39, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> 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
> 
> +techboard,
> 
> Request for review/ack, patch is to remove ABI restriction to add new
> CPU flags.
> 

Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>