From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EA2C3BE for ; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:58:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 Jul 2015 18:58:02 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.15,574,1432623600"; d="scan'208";a="772774454" Received: from shvmail01.sh.intel.com ([10.239.29.42]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 Jul 2015 18:58:01 -0700 Received: from shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (shecgisg004.sh.intel.com [10.239.29.89]) by shvmail01.sh.intel.com with ESMTP id t6U1vxrj000539; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:57:59 +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 t6U1vurg011230; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:57:58 +0800 Received: (from cliang18@localhost) by shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id t6U1vu9k011226; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:57:56 +0800 From: Cunming Liang To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:57:54 +0800 Message-Id: <1438221474-10661-1-git-send-email-cunming.liang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 In-Reply-To: <1433490031-30389-1-git-send-email-cunming.liang@intel.com> References: <1433490031-30389-1-git-send-email-cunming.liang@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce abi change for interrupt mode 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, 30 Jul 2015 01:58:03 -0000 The patch announces the planned ABI changes for interrupt mode on v2.2. Signed-off-by: Cunming Liang --- v2 change: - rebase to recent master doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 5330d3b..645ce32 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -35,3 +35,11 @@ Deprecation Notices * The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats: imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss, tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff + +* The ABI changes are planned for struct rte_intr_handle, struct rte_eth_conf + and struct eth_dev_ops in order to support interrupt mode feature. + The upcoming release 2.1 will not contain these ABI changes by default. + This change will be in release 2.2. There's no backwards compatibility 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