On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:54:47AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 14:02 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > For diversity reasons, the DPDK should take every effort
> > to eliminate master and slave terminology. The actual code change
> > is just syntax, but it has bigger impacts.
> >
> > Lets announce this now and do it in the next API changing
> > release.
> > ---
> > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index 0bee924255af..6b5cbf8d0b0c 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -138,3 +138,30 @@ Deprecation Notices
> > driver probe scheme. The legacy virtio support will be available through
> > the existing VFIO/UIO based kernel driver scheme.
> > More details at https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69351/
> > +
> > +* eal: To be more inclusive in choice of naming, the DPDK project
> > + will follow established diversity guidelines.
> > + The code base will be changed to replace references to sexist
> > + and offensive terms used in function, documentation and variable
> > + names. This change will be progressive across several releases.
> > +
> > + The immediate impact to the API/ABI is that references to
> > + master and slave related to DPDK lcore will be changed to
> > + primary and secondary.
> > +
> > + For example: ``rte_get_master_lcore()`` will be renamed
> > + to ``rte_get_primary_lcore()``. For the 20.11, release
> > + both names will be present and the old function will be
> > + marked with the deprecated tag.
> > +
> > + The macros related to primary and secondary lcore will also
> > + be change: ``RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE`` will be replaced
> > + with ``RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SECONDARY``.
> > +
> > + Drivers and source not governed by API/ABI policy will change
> > + as soon as practical.
> > +
> > + This change aligns DPDK with the MIT diversity guidelines:
> > +
> > https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/Language/NonSexist/vuw.non-sexist-language-guidelines.txt
> > + and follows precedent of other open source projects: Django, Gnome,
> > + ISC, Python, Rust
>
> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>
>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
