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From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Guidelines for moving PMDs to new ethdev offloads API
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:04:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR05MB3149450ECF26C2A7C327F14EC3360@VI1PR05MB3149.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171209215211.4374b057@xeon-e3>

Sunday, December 10, 2017 7:52 AM, Stephen Hemminger:
> 
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 05:35:45 +0000
> Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com> wrote:
> 
> > In 17.11 the ethdev offloads API has changed:
> >
> >                 commit cba7f53b717d ("ethdev: introduce Tx queue offloads API")
> >
> >                 commit ce17eddefc20 ("ethdev: introduce Rx queue offloads API")
> The new API is documented in the programmer's guide:
> >
> >
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdpd
> k.org%2Fdoc%2Fguides%2Fprog_guide%2Fpoll_mode_drv.html%23hardwar
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> >
> >
> >
> > As announced in the deprecation notice, the old API is planned to be
> removed in 18.05:
> >
> >
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdpd
> k.org%2Fdoc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Fdeprecation.html&data=02%7C01%
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[.. ] 

> 
> I agree with this change. but how can it be done with out breaking ABI?

Not sure I understand. 
The new API has already been accepted on 17.11. 
you mean the deprecation in 18.05?  This also been accepted during 17.11 release. 

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-10  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-10  5:35 Shahaf Shuler
2017-12-10  5:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-10  6:04   ` Shahaf Shuler [this message]
2017-12-10 11:23 ` Thomas Monjalon

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