Re: [PATCH v8 3/6] flow_parser: add shared parser library

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:41:59 +0100
Lukas Sismis <sismis@dyna-nic.com> wrote:

> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst
> @@ -62,6 +62,16 @@ New Features
>    convert between RSS type names and values. These helpers provide a global
>    RSS type string table via ``struct rte_eth_rss_type_info``.
>  
> +* **Added experimental flow parser library.**
> +
> +  Introduced ``librte_flow_parser`` as an optional, experimental library
> +  exposing the testpmd ``flow`` CLI parser as a reusable component. The API
> +  converts testpmd-style flow strings into ``rte_flow`` patterns/actions and
> +  provides cmdline helpers to wire parsed commands to application callbacks.
> +  Lightweight helpers were added to parse attributes, patterns, or actions
> +  snippets without managing a parser instance.
> +
> +

This is ok, but usually the DPDK release notes try to shorter and more concise
and leave the more detailed explanation to the documentation.