[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: add notice for planned name size change

[Thomas Monjalon]

> > > VMBUS support will use GUID in eth_dev_data name field which requires
> > > at least 37 characters. Plan for increase in size now.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > > ---
> > > +* ethdev: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure
> > eth_dev_data.
> > Isn't it better to use "``rte_eth_dev_data``"?
> > 
> > > +  The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN
> > from
> > > + 32 to
> > > +  64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this
> > field.
> > 
> > Except for the small comment above,
> > Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh at mellanox.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Applied, thanks