[v2] doc: announce lcore_config symbol removal

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State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series [v2] doc: announce lcore_config symbol removal |

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David Marchand Aug. 8, 2019, 9:31 a.m. UTC
  New accessors have been introduced to provide the hidden information.
This symbol can now be kept internal.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
---
Changelog since v1:
- added acks,
- fixed little typo,

---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon Aug. 8, 2019, 3:47 p.m. UTC | #1
08/08/2019 11:31, David Marchand:
> New accessors have been introduced to provide the hidden information.
> This symbol can now be kept internal.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Applied, thanks
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 70fef52..ee15ab6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@  Deprecation Notices
 * eal: The function ``rte_eal_remote_launch`` will return new error codes
   after read or write error on the pipe, instead of calling ``rte_panic``.
 
+* eal: The ``lcore_config`` struct and global symbol will be made private to
+  remove it from the externally visible ABI and allow it to be updated in the
+  future.
+
 * eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.11.
   New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
   device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the