Announce upcoming changes for 20.11 around the terms blacklist and whitelist.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 31a2b942fba5..b022a9f91ece 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -165,3 +165,19 @@ Deprecation Notices The ``master-lcore`` argument to testpmd will be replaced with ``initial-lcore``. + +* eal: The terms blacklist and whitelist to describe devices used + by DPDK will be replaced by blocked and allowed in the 20.11 relase. + This will apply to command line arguments and macros. + + The macros ``RTE_DEV_BLACKLISTED`` will be replaced with ``RTE_DEV_BLOCKED`` + and ``RTE_DEV_WHITELISTED`` will be replaced with ``RTE_DEV_ALLOWED`` + + The old macros will be marked as deprecated in 20.11 and removed + in the 21.11 release. + + The command line arguments to ``rte_eal_init`` will change from + ``-b, --pci-blacklist`` to ``-x, --exclude`` and + ``-w, --pci-whitelist`` to ``-i, --include``. + The old command line arguments will continue to be accepted in 20.11 + but will cause a runtime error message. -- 2.27.0
