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From: "Stroe, Laura" <laura.stroe@intel.com>
To: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI changes in filtering support
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:12:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C8045DE8B0CAD9439AF22540DABEA3481E2CE69D@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474629771-21574-1-git-send-email-laura.stroe@intel.com>

Self-Nack.
After an internal review of ABI breakage announcements we found a way of achieving this with an ABI change.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stroe, Laura 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 12:23 PM
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stroe, Laura <laura.stroe@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI changes in filtering support

From: Laura Stroe <laura.stroe@intel.com>

This patch adds a notice that the ABI for filter types functionality will be enhanced in the 17.02 release with new operation available to manipulate the tunnel filters:
replace filter types.

Signed-off-by: Laura Stroe <laura.stroe@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 1a3831f..1cd1d2c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -57,3 +57,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * API will change for ``rte_port_source_params`` and ``rte_port_sink_params``
   structures. The member ``file_name`` data type will be changed from
   ``char *`` to ``const char *``. This change targets release 16.11.
+
+* In 17.02 ABI changes are planned: the ``rte_filter_op `` enum will be 
+extended
+  with a new member RTE_ETH_FILTER_REPLACE in order to facilitate
+  the new operation - replacing the tunnel filters,
+  the ``rte_eth_tunnel_filter_conf`` structure will be extended with a 
+new field
+  ``filter_type_replace`` handling the bitmask combination of the 
+filter types
+  defined by the values  ETH_TUNNEL_FILTER_XX,
+  define new values for Outer VLAN and Outer Ethertype filters
+  ETH_TUNNEL_FILTER_OVLAN and ETH_TUNNEL_FILTER_OETH.
--
2.5.5

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-02 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-23 11:22 Your Name
2016-11-02 15:12 ` Stroe, Laura [this message]
2016-11-03 11:42   ` Mcnamara, John

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