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[v4,03/14] acl: remove of unused enum value

Message ID 20201006150316.5776-4-konstantin.ananyev@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Marchand
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Series acl: introduce AVX512 classify methods |

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Ananyev, Konstantin Oct. 6, 2020, 3:03 p.m. UTC 
  Removal of unused enum value (RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_NUM).
This enum value is not used inside DPDK, while it prevents
to add new classify algorithms without causing an ABI breakage.

Note that this change introduce a formal ABI incompatibility
with previous versions of ACL library.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst   | 4 ----
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst | 4 ++++
 lib/librte_acl/rte_acl.h               | 1 -
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 8080a28896..938e967c8f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -209,10 +209,6 @@  Deprecation Notices
   - https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/71457/
   - https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/71456/
 
-* acl: ``RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_NUM`` enum value will be removed.
-  This enum value is not used inside DPDK, while it prevents to add new
-  classify algorithms without causing an ABI breakage.
-
 * sched: To allow more traffic classes, flexible mapping of pipe queues to
   traffic classes, and subport level configuration of pipes and queues
   changes will be made to macros, data structures and API functions defined
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
index 6d8c24413d..e0de60c0c2 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_11.rst
@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@  API Changes
 
 * bpf: ``RTE_BPF_XTYPE_NUM`` has been dropped from ``rte_bpf_xtype``.
 
+* acl: ``RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_NUM`` enum value has been removed.
+  This enum value was not used inside DPDK, while it prevented to add new
+  classify algorithms without causing an ABI breakage.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
diff --git a/lib/librte_acl/rte_acl.h b/lib/librte_acl/rte_acl.h
index aa22e70c6e..b814423a63 100644
--- a/lib/librte_acl/rte_acl.h
+++ b/lib/librte_acl/rte_acl.h
@@ -241,7 +241,6 @@  enum rte_acl_classify_alg {
 	RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_AVX2 = 3,    /**< requires AVX2 support. */
 	RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_NEON = 4,    /**< requires NEON support. */
 	RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_ALTIVEC = 5,    /**< requires ALTIVEC support. */
-	RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_NUM          /* should always be the last one. */
 };
 
 /**