[PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of cmdline_poll

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:18:58 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> Function was added by commit 067855e651d6 ("cmdline: add polling mode")
> but never tested or used by DPDK applications. Mark it for
> future removal.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 872847e938ed..28c458591a68 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -135,3 +135,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Its removal has been postponed to let potential users report interest
>    in maintaining it.
>    In the absence of such interest, this library will be removed in DPDK 23.11.
> +
> +* cmdline: The function ``cmdline_poll`` does not work correctly on either
> +  Linux or Windows and is unused by any part of DPDK.
> +  It will be marked deprecated
> +  starting in the 23.07 relead and removed in DPDK 23.11.

This patch was put out in March and should be merged for 23.07 so that
the dead function can be removed in 23.11.

Why the no response on this? The function was never used and if anyone did
try to use it would have discovered it was broken.

Should it just be removed in 23.11 without warning?