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[dpdk-dev,8/9] doc: add deprecation notice for EAL command line options

Message ID 1de1ed4dffadaef9c7ae70303f930f72da18deb1.1527872626.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Burakov, Anatoly June 1, 2018, 5:15 p.m. UTC 
  Options --no-shconf and --huge-unlink will be removed, and
replaced with --in-memory option, which will be a superset
of these two, and an offially support method to run DPDK
entirely in memory.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
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Notes:
    RFC->v1:
    - Add this patch

 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 1ce692eac..c8344f42f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@  API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
 Deprecation Notices
 -------------------
 
+* eal: command-line options ``--no-shconf`` and ``--huge-unlink`` will be
+    removed, and replaced with a single option ``--in-memory``, which will
+    enable DPDK to operate entirely in memory, without creating any files on any
+    filesystems.
+
 * eal: DPDK runtime configuration file (located at
   ``/var/run/.<prefix>_config``) will be moved. The new path will be as follows: