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1ABI and API Deprecation
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4See the :doc:`guidelines document for details of the ABI policy </contributing/versioning>`.
5API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
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8Deprecation Notices
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11* The EAL function pci_config_space_set is deprecated in release 16.04
12  and will be removed from 16.07.
13  Macros CONFIG_RTE_PCI_CONFIG, CONFIG_RTE_PCI_EXTENDED_TAG and
14  CONFIG_RTE_PCI_MAX_READ_REQUEST_SIZE will be removed.
15  The /sys entries extended_tag and max_read_request_size created by igb_uio
16  will be removed.
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18* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats:
19  ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
20  tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
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22* The ethdev structures rte_eth_link, rte_eth_dev_info and rte_eth_conf
23  must be updated to support 100G link and to have a cleaner link speed API.
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25* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts
26  RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes,
27  but release 2.3 will. [postponed]
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