doc: announce lcore config struct removal from ABI
authorDavid Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Thu, 8 Aug 2019 09:31:29 +0000 (11:31 +0200)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Thu, 8 Aug 2019 15:55:22 +0000 (17:55 +0200)
New accessors have been introduced to provide the hidden information.
This symbol can now be kept internal.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

index b989ea6..b1aa6a8 100644 (file)
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * eal: The function ``rte_eal_remote_launch`` will return new error codes
   after read or write error on the pipe, instead of calling ``rte_panic``.
 
+* eal: The ``lcore_config`` struct and global symbol will be made private to
+  remove it from the externally visible ABI and allow it to be updated in the
+  future.
+
 * eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.11.
   New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
   device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the