doc: announce deprecation of rte_mbuf_extbuf_free_callback_t
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From: Yi Yang <yangyi01@inspur.com>
typedef rte_mbuf_extbuf_free_callback_t will be deprecated
in 20.08 release.
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yangyi01@inspur.com>
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doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
@@ -135,6 +135,14 @@ Deprecation Notices
will be removed in 20.11. It will be replaced with ``refcnt`` of type
``uint16_t``.
+* rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info: typedef of ``free_cb`` member in structure
+ ``rte_mbuf_ext_shared_info`` ``rte_mbuf_extbuf_free_callback_t`` will be
+ changed to adapt to GSO case, new typedef will be
+ ``void (*rte_mbuf_extbuf_free_callback_t)(struct rte_mbuf *, void *)``,
+ it is impossible to free original owner mbuf of shinfo by ``free_cb`` and
+ keep compatible with non-GSO case at the same time without this change.
+ It will be deprecated in 20.08.
+
* metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.