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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mem: share legacy and single file segments
	mode with secondaries
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:56:44 +0200
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27/08/2018 14:24, Anatoly Burakov:
> Currently, command-line switches for legacy mem mode or single-file
> segments mode are only stored in internal config. This leads to a
> situation where these flags have to always match between primary
> and secondary, which is bad for usability.
> 
> Fix this by storing these flags in the shared config as well, so
> that secondary process can know if the primary was launched in
> single-file segments or legacy mem mode.
> 
> This bumps the EAL ABI, however there's an EAL deprecation notice
> already in place[1] for a different feature, so that's OK.

You need to update the release notes:
	- ABI change section
	- library version section

Thanks