Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change to support VF representors

["Doherty, Declan" <declan.doherty@intel.com>]

On 14/02/2018 12:32 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> This is following the RFC being discussed and targets 18.05
>
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/085716.html
>
> Cc: declan.doherty@intel.com
> Cc: mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com
> Cc: ferruh.yigit@intel.com
> Cc: remy.horton@intel.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.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 d59ad5988..f6151de63 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>     be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the
>     structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on
>     platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms.
> +
> +* ethdev: A work is being planned for 18.05 to expose VF port representors
> +  as a mean to perform control and data path operation on the different VFs.
> +  As VF representor is an ethdev port, new fields are needed in order to map
> +  between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields
> +  are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct.
>
Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>