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From: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 8/9] doc: add deprecation notice for EAL
	command line options
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:27:14 +0100
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Options --no-shconf and --huge-unlink will be removed, and
replaced with --in-memory option, which will be a superset
of these two, and an offially support method to run DPDK
entirely in memory.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---

Notes:
    RFC->v1:
    - Add this patch

 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 5de59833d..dd1b5c5d8 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
 Deprecation Notices
 -------------------
 
+* eal: command-line options ``--no-shconf`` and ``--huge-unlink`` will be
+    removed, and replaced with a single option ``--in-memory``, which will
+    enable DPDK to operate entirely in memory, without creating any files on any
+    filesystems.
+
 * eal: DPDK runtime configuration file (located at
   ``/var/run/.<prefix>_config``) will be moved. The new path will be as follows:
 
-- 
2.17.1