[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/9] librte_ether: add new fields to rte_eth_dev_info struct

[Pattan, Reshma]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen at networkplumber.org]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 11:25 PM
> To: Pattan, Reshma <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/9] librte_ether: add new fields to
> rte_eth_dev_info struct
> 
> On Mon, 23 May 2016 22:38:26 +0100
> Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Add new fields to rte_eth_dev_info struct New fields nb_rx_queues and
> > nb_tx_queues are added to rte_eth_dev_info structure.
> > Changes to API rte_eth_dev_info_get() are done to update these new
> > fields to rte_eth_dev_info object.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
> 
> This is an ABI break because rte_dev_info_get will clobber the the stack of the
> caller if the caller thinks dev_info is old size.

Yes  and the ABI breakage was announced as RFC earlier, please check the below mails, now this is formal patch for the same.
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-April/037458.html
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-April/037459.html
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-April/037460.html

Thanks,
Reshma