Previous commits have converted dpdk EAL initialization from
requiring a ``--dpdk ... --`` command line arguments to using the Open
vSwitch database. This change announces that as significant NEWS.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sean K Mooney <[email protected]>
Tested-by: RobertX Wojciechowicz <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]>
---
Typically this is included in the patch which introduces the NEWS-worthy
change, but in this case, I thought it was more appropriate to keep it
isolated. This patch has not significantly changed since it was
introduced (in v7 on Jan 27th)

 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ea7f3a1..861dec1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Post-v2.5.0
        assignment.
      * Type of log messages from PMD threads changed from INFO to DBG.
      * QoS functionality with sample egress-policer implementation.
+     * The mechanism for configuring DPDK has changed from cli based, to
+       using the database.
+     * Some sensible defaults have been introduced for ease of use.
    - ovs-benchmark: This utility has been removed due to lack of use and
      bitrot.
    - ovs-appctl:
-- 
2.5.5

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