From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <cliang18@shecgisg004.sh.intel.com> Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F29376E for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 5 Jun 2015 09:40:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Jun 2015 00:40:44 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,557,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="503129812" Received: from shvmail01.sh.intel.com ([10.239.29.42]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Jun 2015 00:40:42 -0700 Received: from shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (shecgisg004.sh.intel.com [10.239.29.89]) by shvmail01.sh.intel.com with ESMTP id t557ebFO022563; Fri, 5 Jun 2015 15:40:37 +0800 Received: from shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id t557eY7K030523; Fri, 5 Jun 2015 15:40:36 +0800 Received: (from cliang18@localhost) by shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id t557eXph030519; Fri, 5 Jun 2015 15:40:33 +0800 From: Cunming Liang <cunming.liang@intel.com> To: dev@dpdk.org, nhorman@tuxdriver.com Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 15:40:31 +0800 Message-Id: <1433490031-30389-1-git-send-email-cunming.liang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 Cc: shemming@brocade.com Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] abi: announce abi changes plan for interrupt mode 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: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 07:40:45 -0000 It announces the planned ABI changes for interrupt mode on v2.2. The feature will turn off by default so as to avoid v2.1 ABI broken. Signed-off-by: Cunming Liang <cunming.liang@intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst index f00a6ee..4c9bf85 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst @@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* The ABI changes are planned for struct rte_intr_handle and struct rte_eth_conf in order to support interrupt mode feature. The upcoming release 2.1 will not contain these ABI changes by default, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planed due to the additional interrupt mode feature enabling. Binaries using this library build prior to version 2.2 will require updating and recompilation. -- 1.8.1.4