doc: announce ABI change for config file library

Signed-off-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Gajdzica <maciejx.t.gajdzica@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Mrzyglod <danielx.t.mrzyglod@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 8e73cc3..5cf01a4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -70,3 +70,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
 
 * The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of
   RED actions.
+
+* librte_cfgfile: In order to allow for longer names and values,
+  the value of macros CFG_NAME_LEN and CFG_NAME_VAL will be increased.
+  Most likely, the new values will be 64 and 256, respectively.