getting rid of type argument to rte_malloc().

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:29:51 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com> wrote:

> On 4/24/2024 5:08 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > For the 24.11 release, I want to remove the unused type string argument
> > that shows up in rte_malloc() and related functions, then percolates down
> > through.  It was a idea in the 1.0 release of DPDK, never implemented and
> > never removed.  Yes it will cause API breakage, a large sweeping change;
> > probably easily scripted with coccinelle.
> > 
> > Maybe doing ABI version now?
> >  
> 
> Won't this impact many applications, is there big enough motivation to
> force many DPDK applications to update their code, living with it looks
> simpler.
> 

Yeah, probably too big an impact but at least:
  - change the documentation to say "do not use" should be NULL
  - add script to remove all usage inside of DPDK
  - get rid of places where useless arg is passed around inside
    of the allocator internals.