[PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[Bruce Richardson]

Add a notice in the deprecation section of the release notes to call out
the fact that the minimum supported meson version for DPDK will change
from 19.05 onwards.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index d4aea4b46..92524e4e3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for
   recent distribution kernels will be kept.
 
+* meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and building
+  DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards. For
+  those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson
+  can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading python
+  packages.
+
 * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
   for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
 
-- 
2.20.1

Re: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 11:37 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Add a notice in the deprecation section of the release notes to call
> out
> the fact that the minimum supported meson version for DPDK will
> change
> from 19.05 onwards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index d4aea4b46..92524e4e3 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility
> for
>    recent distribution kernels will be kept.
>  
> +* meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and
> building
> +  DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05
> onwards. For
> +  those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of
> meson
> +  can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading
> python
> +  packages.
> +
>  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new
> parameter
>    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match
> case.

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

Re: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[Timothy Redaelli]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:37:13 +0000
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> Add a notice in the deprecation section of the release notes to call out
> the fact that the minimum supported meson version for DPDK will change
> from 19.05 onwards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index d4aea4b46..92524e4e3 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for
>    recent distribution kernels will be kept.
>  
> +* meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and building
> +  DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards. For
> +  those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson
> +  can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading python
> +  packages.
> +
>  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
>    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
>  

Acked-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>

Re: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[Bruce Richardson]

+ Marco and Christian to ensure I get the most distro awareness.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:37:13AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Add a notice in the deprecation section of the release notes to call out
> the fact that the minimum supported meson version for DPDK will change
> from 19.05 onwards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index d4aea4b46..92524e4e3 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for
>    recent distribution kernels will be kept.
>  
> +* meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and building
> +  DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards. For
> +  those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson
> +  can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading python
> +  packages.
> +
>  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
>    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

Re: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2019-01-16 at 14:41 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> + Marco and Christian to ensure I get the most distro awareness.

-Marco +Nirvoy - Nirvoy is the current maintainer of DPDK in SUSE

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 11:37:13AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Add a notice in the deprecation section of the release notes to
> > call out
> > the fact that the minimum supported meson version for DPDK will
> > change
> > from 19.05 onwards.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index d4aea4b46..92524e4e3 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >    Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility
> > for
> >    recent distribution kernels will be kept.
> >  
> > +* meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring
> > and building
> > +  DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05
> > onwards. For
> > +  those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy
> > of meson
> > +  can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading
> > python
> > +  packages.
> > +
> >  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new
> > parameter
> >    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match 
> > case.
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.20.1
> > 

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

Re: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[Van Haaren, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 11:37 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: bluca@debian.org; tredaelli@redhat.com; Richardson, Bruce
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version
> 
> Add a notice in the deprecation section of the release notes to call out
> the fact that the minimum supported meson version for DPDK will change
> from 19.05 onwards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index d4aea4b46..92524e4e3 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for
>    recent distribution kernels will be kept.
> 
> +* meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and
> building
> +  DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards.
> For
> +  those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson
> +  can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading python
> +  packages.
> +
>  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
>    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.


Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>

Re: [PATCH] doc: add deprecation notice for meson version

[Thomas Monjalon]

16/01/2019 12:37, Bruce Richardson:
> Add a notice in the deprecation section of the release notes to call out
> the fact that the minimum supported meson version for DPDK will change
> from 19.05 onwards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Acked-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Applied, thanks