From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <reshmapa@ecsmtp.ir.intel.com> Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E91CADFF for <dev@dpdk.org>; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:38:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Jun 2016 06:38:32 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.26,439,1459839600"; d="scan'208";a="715879546" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Jun 2016 06:38:31 -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 u58DcU3A026954; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:38:30 +0100 Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev02.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id u58DcUx5032704; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:38:30 +0100 Received: (from reshmapa@localhost) by sivswdev02.ir.intel.com with id u58DcU2Z032700; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:38:30 +0100 From: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com> To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:38:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1465393107-32587-10-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 In-Reply-To: <1465393107-32587-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> References: <1464039512-2683-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> <1465393107-32587-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 9/9] 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 <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:38:34 -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 <reshma.pattan@intel.com> --- 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 ad05eba..04316fb 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -57,3 +57,9 @@ 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