doc: add note on hardware support deprecation
authorBruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:59:55 +0000 (14:59 +0100)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:47:12 +0000 (23:47 +0200)
commitd6f93addff90d1044aba31475758285127ca825e
treef306ca417d938304a70d24e76476c08678f1a494
parent5ff71fce909afb03ac3449bb5a445c01439e2255
doc: add note on hardware support deprecation

Following agreement at the DPDK Technical Board meeting [1], the policy
that hardware support deprecation should be treated as though it were an
ABI break needs to be documented in the contributors guide.

[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-September/074613.html

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst