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From: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] eal: deprecate 17.08 devargs API/ABI
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 17:55:44 +0530
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On 7/9/2017 2:58 PM, Jan Blunck wrote:
> Add deprecation notice necessary to do devargs refactoring for 17.11.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
> ---
>  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 33e8b93db..5b6ed0444 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -64,3 +64,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    be removed in 17.11:
>
>    - ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``
> +
> +* devargs: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure ``rte_devargs``.
> +  The newly introduced devargs ABI in 17.08 is tightly couple to the bus
                                                           ^^^^^^^
Trivial comment:                                          coupled

> +  implementations which will get fixed in 17.11. The following function is
> +  deprecated and will change API in 17.11:
> +
> +  - ``rte_eal_devargs_add``
>


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Shreyansh