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[dpdk-dev] doc: announce removal of indirect mbuf check macro

Message ID 20180525005338.28773-1-yskoh@mellanox.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Yongseok Koh May 25, 2018, 12:53 a.m. UTC 
  Link: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-April/099476.html

Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
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 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 1e2443c76..44da16445 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
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@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@  Deprecation Notices
   is defined in librte_sched in a non-generic way. The new generic format
   will contain: queue ID, traffic class, color. Field size will not change.
 
+* mbuf: the macro ``RTE_MBUF_INDIRECT()`` will be removed in v18.08 and replaced
+  with ``RTE_MBUF_CLONED()``. As EXT_ATTACHED_MBUF is introduced in v18.05,
+  ``RTE_MBUF_INDIRECT()`` is no longer mutually exclusive with
+  ``RTE_MBUF_DIRECT()``. This change will fix the semantic inconsistency.
+
 * ethdev: a new Tx and Rx offload API was introduced on 17.11.
   In the new API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads.
   Offloads are disabled by default and enabled per application request.