[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for rte_eth_fdir_filter

Liang, Cunming cunming.liang at intel.com
Thu Jul 30 05:38:49 CEST 2015



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jingjing Wu
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 3:04 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for rte_eth_fdir_filter
> 
> To fix the FVL's flow director issue for SCTP flow, rte_eth_fdir_filter
> need to be change to support SCTP flow keys extension. Here announce
> the ABI deprecation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: jingjing.wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 5330d3b..63e19c7 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -35,3 +35,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
>  * The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats:
>    imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
>    tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
> +
> +* Significant ABI change is planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_filter to extend
> +  the SCTP flow's key input from release 2.1. The change may be enabled in
> +  the upcoming release 2.1 with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
> --
> 2.4.0

Acked-by: Cunming Liang <cunming.liang at intel.com>



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