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From: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6:12 PM
To: Jerin Jacob <redacted>
Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <redacted>; Ferruh Yigit
[off-list ref]; Ray Kinsella [off-list ref]; Neil Horman
[off-list ref]; dpdk-dev [off-list ref]; Andrew
Rybchenko [off-list ref]; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce common prefix for ethdev

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 8:03 AM Jerin Jacob [off-list ref]
wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 7:28 PM Andrew Rybchenko
[off-list ref] wrote:

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On 6/30/21 12:21 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:

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Announce adding 'RTE_ETH_' prefix to all public ethdev macros/enums

on

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v21.11.
Backward compatibility macros will be added on v21.11 and they will be
removed on v22.11.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <redacted>
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Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <redacted>
Cc: David Marchand <redacted>
Cc: Qi Z Zhang <redacted>
Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <redacted>
Cc: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Cc: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <redacted>
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  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

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index 9584d6bfd723..ae79673e37e3 100644

--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

@@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
    consistent with existing outer header checksum status flag naming,

which

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    should help in reducing confusion about its usage.

+* ethdev: Will add 'RTE_ETH_' prefix to all ethdev macros/enums in

v21.11. Macros

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+  will be added for backward compatibility. Backward compatibility

macros will be

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+  removed on v22.11. A few old backward compatibility macros from

2013 that does

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+  not have proper prefix will be removed on v21.11.
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  * i40e: As there are both i40evf and iavf pmd, the functions of them

are

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    duplicated. And now more and more advanced features are

developed on iavf.

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    To keep consistent with kernel driver's name

Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <redacted>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <redacted>

Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>

Acked-by: Raslan Darawsheh <redacted>