[PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS

[Jerin Jacob]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 7:48 PM Tyler Retzlaff
<roretzla at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 09:39:15AM +0100, 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: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla at linux.microsoft.com>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>