[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] doc: announce ethdev ABI change for rte_eth_dev_info.

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 11/22/18 9:27 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 11/22/2018 12:09 PM, Ian Stokes wrote:
>> Maximum and minimum MTU values vary between hardware devices. In
>> hardware agnostic DPDK applications access to such information would
>> allow a more accurate way of validating and setting supported MTU values on
>> a per device basis rather than using a defined default for all devices.
>>
>> The following solution was proposed:
>>
>> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-September/110959.html
>>
>> This patch adds a depreciation notice for ``rte_eth_dev_info`` as new
>> members will be added to represent min and max MTU values. These can be
>> added to fit a hole in the existing structure for amd64 but not for 32 bit,
>> as such ABI change will occur as size of the structure will be impacted.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>

Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>