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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/14] eal: do not panic when CPU isn't
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:47:31 +0000
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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 <aconole@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.

/Bruce