From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrien Mazarguil Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of flow copy function Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 16:37:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20180803143728.15817-1-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon , Ferruh Yigit , Gaetan Rivet To: Neil Horman Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com (mail-wm0-f66.google.com [74.125.82.66]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60FD1B59E for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2018 16:38:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f66.google.com with SMTP id l2-v6so5174376wme.1 for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2018 07:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil Cc: Thomas Monjalon Cc: Ferruh Yigit Cc: Gaetan Rivet --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 14714fe94..05c77da65 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -68,3 +68,10 @@ Deprecation Notices - ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir`` will be removed; - The parameter, ``path``, of ``rte_pdump_init`` will be removed; - The enum ``rte_pdump_socktype`` will be removed. + +* ethdev: flow API function ``rte_flow_copy()`` will be deprecated in v18.11 + in favor of ``rte_flow_conv()`` (which will appear in that version) and + subsequently removed for v19.02. + + This is due to a lack of flexibility and reliance on a type unusable with + C++ programs (struct rte_flow_desc). -- 2.11.0