Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] doc: ethdev ABI change deprecation notice

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:29:46AM +0000, Kirill Rybalchenko wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.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 13e8543..aaf306a 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
>    PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
>  
> +* ethdev: announce ABI change
> +  The size of variables flow_types_mask in rte_eth_fdir_info structure,
> +  sym_hash_enable_mask and valid_bit_mask in rte_eth_hash_global_conf structure
> +  will be increased from 32 to 64 bits to fulfill hardware requirements.
> +  This change will break existing ABI as size of the structures will increase.
> +
>  * i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
>    bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
>    required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
> -- 
> 2.5.5
> 
> 
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>