From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A747D24 for ; Thu, 4 May 2017 18:50:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 04 May 2017 09:50:03 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.38,287,1491289200"; d="scan'208";a="95609299" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.81]) ([10.237.220.81]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 04 May 2017 09:50:02 -0700 To: Stephen Hemminger , Hemant Agrawal Cc: dev@dpdk.org References: <1493811091-26226-1-git-send-email-hemant.agrawal@nxp.com> <20170503085054.06fafab8@xeon-e3> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <0ed97965-8c92-4e58-f2be-dc693b5ebdc1@intel.com> Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 17:50:01 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170503085054.06fafab8@xeon-e3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: notice for changes in kni structures X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 16:50:08 -0000 On 5/3/2017 4:50 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2017 17:01:31 +0530 > Hemant Agrawal wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal >> --- >> 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.