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

Ajit Khaparde ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com
Thu Aug 6 17:48:14 CEST 2020


On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 5:30 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> 03/08/2020 21:51, Dekel Peled:
> > 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>
> > ---
> > +* 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.
>
> That's the same idea as VLAN item, but for IPv6 extensions.
> We need to address the issues of variable header parts with rte_flow, so
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>


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