From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change for rte_ether.h
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:30:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151214153055.GA37304@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2618453.kF8WIUB5uB@xps13>
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 03:54:06PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-12-10 15:27, Stephen Hemminger:
> > Plan to change to <net/ethernet.h> version of struct ether_addr in
> > DPDK 2.3. The change in DPDK source is trivial but it will impact
> > source compatablilty therefore notification is necessary.
> [...]
> > +* librte_ether: The structure ether_addr in DPDK will be replaced
> > + by using the standard header file <net/ethernet.h>. The structure
> > + size will be the same (no ABI impact), but the structure field name
> > + will change from addr_bytes[] to ether_addr_octet[].
>
>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
>
> Any other votes for this API cleanup?
>
Are the structures and contents of net/ethernet.h the same on both Linux and
FreeBSD?
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-14 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-10 23:27 Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-11 9:28 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-12-11 16:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-14 14:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-14 15:30 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2015-12-14 15:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-14 16:00 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-12-14 17:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
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