[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce change in IPv6 item struct

[Dekel Peled]

Kind reminder to all maintainers, please review and ack/comment.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dekel Peled <dekelp at mellanox.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2020 10:51 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: jerinjacobk at gmail.com; stephen at networkplumber.org;
> arybchenko at solarflare.com; ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com;
> maxime.coquelin at redhat.com; olivier.matz at 6wind.com;
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> Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce change in IPv6 item struct
> 
> Struct rte_flow_item_ipv6 will be modified to include additional values,
> indicating existence or absence of IPv6 extension headers following the IPv6
> header, as proposed in RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-
> August/177257.html.
> Because of ABI break this change is proposed for 20.11.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp at mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ea4cfa7..5201142 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    break the ABI checks, that is why change is planned for 20.11.
>    The list of internal APIs are mainly ones listed in ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``.
> 
> +* ethdev: The ``struct rte_flow_item_ipv6`` struct will be modified to
> +include
> +  additional values, indicating existence or absence of IPv6 extension
> +headers
> +  following the IPv6 header, as proposed in RFC
> +  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177257.html.
> +
>  * traffic manager: All traffic manager API's in ``rte_tm.h`` were mistakenly
> made
>    ABI stable in the v19.11 release. The TM maintainer and other contributors
> have
>    agreed to keep the TM APIs as experimental in expectation of additional
> spec
> --
> 1.8.3.1