[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce change in ETH and VLAN item structs

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 8/6/20 3:25 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 06/08/2020 12:45, Dekel Peled:
>> Structs rte_flow_item_eth and rte_flow_item_vlan will be modified,
>> to include an additional value, indicating existence or absence of VLAN
>> headers following the current header, as proposed in RFC
>> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177536.html.
>> Because of ABI break this change is proposed for 20.11.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp at mellanox.com>
>> ---
>> +* ethdev: The ``struct rte_flow_item_eth`` and ``struct rte_flow_item_vlan``
>> +  structs will be modified, to include an additional value, indicating existence
>> +  or absence of a VLAN header following the current header, as proposed in RFC
>> +  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177536.html.
> Specifying match patterns on none or multiple extensions
> is difficult to manage with rte_flow.
> It seems this approach of adding explicit fields in the items
> can work well.
>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>

Similar to IPv6, it looks required to add extra information to ETH (and may
be VLAN) item, but I'm not sure that proposed solution is 100% OK.
Anyway, the scope of the deprecation notice is ongoing changes, so:

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