[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/9] ethdev: extend flow director for input selection

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Mar 23 09:45:26 CET 2016


2016-03-23 00:42, Wu, Jingjing:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> > 2016-03-21 14:18, Jingjing Wu:
> > > This patch added RTE_ETH_INPUT_SET_L3_IP4_TTL,
> > > RTE_ETH_INPUT_SET_L3_IP6_HOP_LIMITS input field type and extended
> > > struct rte_eth_ipv4_flow and rte_eth_ipv6_flow to support filtering by
> > > tos, protocol and ttl.
> > [...]
> > > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > @@ -22,10 +22,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
> > >  * The ethdev structures rte_eth_link, rte_eth_dev_info and rte_eth_conf
> > >    must be updated to support 100G link and to have a cleaner link speed
> > API.
> > >
> > > -* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow in order to
> > > support
> > > -  extend flow director's input set. The release 2.2 does not contain
> > > these ABI
> > > -  changes, but release 2.3 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.
> > 
> > The changed structures are part of rte_eth_fdir_flow.
> > So this deprecation notice apply to this patch.
> > 
> > >  * ABI changes are planned for rte_eth_ipv4_flow and rte_eth_ipv6_flow
> > to
> > >    include more fields to be matched against. The release 2.2 does not
> > >    contain these ABI changes, but release 2.3 will.
> > 
> > These are the structures changed in this patch.
> > I think this section must be also removed.
> 
> This deprecation notice is not raised by me. It is raised by rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com at commit 954f1545a1ab.
> So, I'm not sure if it is OK for me to remove it in my patch.

It does not matter who raised the notice.
Your patch match with it. Please remove it.


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