[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API and ABI change for ethdev

[Tan, Jianfeng]

On 7/12/2017 12:58 AM, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
>    This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 on redefinition of

A nit: we usually don't indent at the commit message paragraph.

> port_id. port_id is defined as uint8_t by now, which is just ranged
> from 0 to 255. For more and more scenerioes, more than 256 devices are
> needed to support for vdev scalability.
>
>    It is necessary for redefinition of port_id to extend from 1 bytes
> to 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and use cases related to port_id will be
> changed at the same time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang at intel.com>

Acked-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>

Thanks,
Jianfeng

> ---
>   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 257dcba..f265980 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
>     Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
>     PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
>   
> +* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.11 in the "rte_eth_dev_data" structure.
> +  Change the definition of port_id from 8bits to 16bits in order to support
> +  more than 256 devices in DPDK.
> +
>   * librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables
>     that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype.
>     The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed