From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: notice for changes in kni structures
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 17:50:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ed97965-8c92-4e58-f2be-dc693b5ebdc1@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170503085054.06fafab8@xeon-e3>
On 5/3/2017 4:50 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2017 17:01:31 +0530
> Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com> wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
>> ---
>> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>> index a3e7c72..0c1ef2c 100644
>> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>> @@ -81,3 +81,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
>>
>> - ``rte_crpytodev_scheduler_mode_get``, replaced by ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_mode_get``
>> - ``rte_crpytodev_scheduler_mode_set``, replaced by ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_mode_set``
>> +
>> +* kni: additional functionality is planned to be added in kni to support mtu, macaddr,
>> + gso_size, promiscusity configuration.
>> + some of the kni structure will be changed to support additional functionality
>> + e.g ``rte_kni_request`` to support promiscusity`` and mac_addr,
>> + ``rte_kni_mbu`` to support the configured gso_size,
>> + ``rte_kni_device_info`` and ``rte_kni_conf`` to also support mtu and macaddr.
>
> Why are these exposed as something applications should care about?
> The data structures in rte_kni_common.h are not an API
+1,
rte_kni_common.h is a contract between user - kernel space, not part of API.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-04 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-03 11:31 Hemant Agrawal
2017-05-03 15:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-04 16:50 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2017-05-08 10:00 ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-05-04 16:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-05-08 9:46 ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-05-09 13:42 ` Ferruh Yigit
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