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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ivan Boule <ivan.boule@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, olivier.matz@6wind.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change for ethdev port info
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:50:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44436245.kbII4kygmp@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1508164067-22952-1-git-send-email-ivan.boule@6wind.com>

16/10/2017 16:27, Ivan Boule:
> To help administrative tasks on ports, new per-port information need
> to be added into the data structure rte_eth_dev_info supplied by the
> dev_infos_get() function exported by a Poll Mode Driver.
> 
> See http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-September/074885.html for
> details.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Boule <ivan.boule@6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> ---
> +* librte_ether: additional fields will be added into the ``rte_eth_dev_info``
> +  structure in 18.02, breaking the API. These fields will contain:
> +
> +  - the set of supported link modes,
> +  - the set of advertised link modes,
> +  - the type of port connector,
> +  - autonegotiation enabled or not.

This patch is not accepted in 17.11 for following reasons:
- it requires at least 3 acks
- we are not going to break API in 18.02, except maybe for EAL devargs
- the link mode is redundant with the speed capabilities
- such fields require work (and time) for every PMD to be fully supported
- we should discuss more generally which infos are in the scope of this function

Sorry for the short notice, I was waiting for comments and to see if
other deprecations were sent (or not) for ethdev.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-14 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-16 14:27 Ivan Boule
2017-11-14 23:50 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-11-15  8:13   ` Olivier MATZ
2017-11-15 15:23     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-02-13 13:15 ` Olivier Matz

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