[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce ABI change of struct rte_port_source_params and rte_port_sink_params

[Fan Zhang]

The ABI changes are planned for rte_port_source_params and
rte_port_sink_params, which will be supported from release 16.11. Here
announces that ABI changes in detail.

Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index fffe9c7..4f3fefe 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -74,3 +74,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
   a handle, like the way kernel exposes an fd to user for locating a
   specific file, and to keep all major structures internally, so that
   we are likely to be free from ABI violations in future.
+
+* ABI will change for rte_port_source_params struct. The member file_name
+  data type will be changed from char * to const char *. This change targets
+  release 16.11
+
+* ABI will change for rte_port_sink_params struct. The member file_name
+  data type will be changed from char * to const char *. This change targets
+  release 16.11
-- 
2.5.5