ABI and API Deprecation
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See the :doc:`guidelines document for details of the ABI policy </contributing/versioning>`.
API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.


Deprecation Notices
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* The EAL function pci_config_space_set is deprecated in release 16.04
  and will be removed from 16.07.
  Macros CONFIG_RTE_PCI_CONFIG, CONFIG_RTE_PCI_EXTENDED_TAG and
  CONFIG_RTE_PCI_MAX_READ_REQUEST_SIZE will be removed.
  The /sys entries extended_tag and max_read_request_size created by igb_uio
  will be removed.

* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats:
  ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
  tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff

* The ethdev structures rte_eth_link, rte_eth_dev_info and rte_eth_conf
  must be updated to support 100G link and to have a cleaner link speed API.

* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow in order to support
  extend flow director's input set. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI
  changes, but release 2.3 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.

* ABI changes are planned for rte_eth_ipv4_flow and rte_eth_ipv6_flow to
  include more fields to be matched against. The release 2.2 does not
  contain these ABI changes, but release 2.3 will.

* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts
  RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes,
  but release 2.3 will.

* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of
  RED actions.