Announce upcoming changes for 20.11. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 7c60779f3e68..abfec0aeaa4b 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -165,3 +165,24 @@ Deprecation Notices The ``master-lcore`` argument to testpmd will be replaced with ``initial-lcore``. + +* eal: The terms blacklist and whitelist to describe devices used + by DPDK will be replaced in the 20.11 relase. + This will apply to command line arguments as well as macros. + + The macro ``RTE_DEV_BLACKLISTED`` will be replaced with ``RTE_DEV_EXCLUDED`` + and ``RTE_DEV_WHITELISTED`` will be replaced with ``RTE_DEV_INCLUDED`` + ``RTE_BUS_SCAN_BLACKLIST`` and ``RTE_BUS_SCAN_WHITELIST`` will be + replaced with ``RTE_BUS_SCAN_EXCLUDED`` and ``RTE_BUS_SCAN_INCLUDED`` + respectively. Likewise ``RTE_DEVTYPE_BLACKLISTED_PCI`` and + ``RTE_DEVTYPE_WHITELISTED_PCI`` will be replaced with + ``RTE_DEVTYPE_EXCLUDED`` and ``RTE_DEVTYPE_INCLUDED``. + + The old macros will be marked as deprecated in 20.11 and removed + in the 21.11 release. + + The command line arguments to ``rte_eal_init`` will change from + ``-b, --pci-blacklist`` to ``-x, --exclude`` and + ``-w, --pci-whitelist`` to ``-i, --include``. + The old command line arguments will continue to be accepted in 20.11 + but will cause a runtime error message. -- 2.27.0
