Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] doc: announce ethdev ABI change for rte_eth_dev_info.

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 11/22/2018 12:09 PM, Ian Stokes wrote:
> Maximum and minimum MTU values vary between hardware devices. In
> hardware agnostic DPDK applications access to such information would
> allow a more accurate way of validating and setting supported MTU values on
> a per device basis rather than using a defined default for all devices.
> 
> The following solution was proposed:
> 
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-September/110959.html
> 
> This patch adds a depreciation notice for ``rte_eth_dev_info`` as new
> members will be added to represent min and max MTU values. These can be
> added to fit a hole in the existing structure for amd64 but not for 32 bit,
> as such ABI change will occur as size of the structure will be impacted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 34b28234c..da2b1ce15 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -49,6 +49,18 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
>    PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
>  
> +* ethdev: Maximum and minimum MTU values vary between hardware devices. In
> +  hardware agnostic DPDK applications access to such information would allow
> +  a more accurate way of validating and setting supported MTU values on a per
> +  device basis rather than using a defined default for all devices. To
> +  resolve this, the following members will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info``.
> +  Note: these can be added to fit a hole in the existing structure for amd64
> +  but not for 32 bit, as such ABI change will occur as size of the structure
> +  will increase.
> +
> +  - Member ``uint16_t min_mtu`` the minimum MTU allowed.
> +  - Member ``uint16_t max_mtu`` the maximum MTU allowed.
> +
>  * pdump: As we changed to use generic IPC, some changes in APIs and structure
>    are expected in subsequent release.
>  
> 

cc'ed a few more folks.