Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> writes: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 04:19:28PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: >> This adds a new API to check for the eal cpu versions. >> >> It's now possible to gracefully exit the application, or for >> applications which support non-dpdk datapaths working in concert with >> DPDK datapaths, there no longer is the possibility of exiting for >> unsupported CPUs. >> >> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> > > I think we should mark the old function as deprecated or else delete it > entirely. It was technically public, but I suspect it was only ever used > by the EAL init, so I'd look to get rid of it ASAP rather than leave it > hanging around unneeded.
Okay, I'll submit a follow on patch after this is accepted to mark it as deprecated. I agree, I don't know of any application using it (though I looked at MoonGen, ovs, and warp17). > /Bruce
