From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496DB3977 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:44:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 14 Apr 2016 02:44:40 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,484,1455004800"; d="scan'208";a="85003810" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 14 Apr 2016 02:44:38 -0700 Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com (sivswdev02.ir.intel.com [10.237.217.46]) by irvmail001.ir.intel.com (8.14.3/8.13.6/MailSET/Hub) with ESMTP id u3E9ibOk021444 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:44:37 +0100 Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev02.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id u3E9ibr3008253 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:44:37 +0100 Received: (from reshmapa@localhost) by sivswdev02.ir.intel.com with id u3E9ibdg008249 for dev@dpdk.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:44:37 +0100 From: Reshma Pattan To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:44:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1460627077-8207-2-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 In-Reply-To: <1460627077-8207-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> References: <1460627077-8207-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/2] doc: announce ABI change for rte_eth_dev_info structure X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:44:42 -0000 New fields nb_rx_queues and nb_tx_queues will be added to rte_eth_dev_info structure. Changes to API rte_eth_dev_info_get() will be done to update these new fields to rte_eth_dev_info object. Signed-off-by:reshma Pattan --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 327fc2b..78cedb7 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -90,3 +90,9 @@ Deprecation Notices a handle, like the way kernel exposes an fd to user for locating a specific file, and to keep all major structures internally, so that we are likely to be free from ABI violations in future. + +* A librte_ether public structure ``rte_eth_dev_info`` will be changed in 16.07. + The proposed change will add new parameters ``nb_rx_queues``, ``nb_tx_queues`` + to the structure. These are the number of queues configured by software. + Modification to definition of ``rte_eth_dev_info_get()`` will be done + to update new parameters to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` object. -- 2.5.0