Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/5] increase port_id range

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 9/29/2017 8:17 AM, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
> port_id is currently defined as uint8_t, which is limited to the range
> 0 to 255. A larger range is required for vdev scalability.
> 
> It is necessary for a redefinition of port_id to extend it from
> 1 bytes to 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and usages related to port_id will
> be changed at the same time.
> 
> Discussion about port_id is the following thread.
> http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/23208/
> 
> Changes in V2:
> 1. cover more PMDs to increase port_id range.
> 2. cover more examples to increase port_id range.
> 3. add 17.11 release note.
> 
> Changes in V3:
> 1.  cover mlx4 and mlx5.
> 2.  add to increase port_id range in test code.
> 3.  The patch "librte_mbuf: modify port initialization value" is merged
>     into the patchset.
> 
> Changes in V4:
> 1.  Add a patch to remove bonding APIs using ABI versioning according to
>     Ferruh's comments.
> 2.  Unify to use typedef portid_t in testpmd code.
> 3.  update release note deprecation doc in 2/5
> 4.  fix some issues according to comments.
> 
> Changes in V5:
> 1.  For 1/5, bond_mode_8023ad_conf_get_v1708() and bond_mode_8023ad_conf
>     _get() are merged into one function bond_mode_8023ad_conf_get.
> 
> Changes in V6:
> 1.  For 2/5, remove the unnecessary LIBABIVER in Makefile and update
>     the release notes "Shared Library Versions".
>     Note: The patchset have dependency on the following patch.
>     http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/28738/
>     http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/29219/
> 
> Note: 3/5 and 4/5 patches' building depends on 2/5 patch since 2/5 patch
> breaks lib/PMD API/ABI.
> 
> Zhiyong Yang (5):
>   net/bonding: remove bonding APIs using ABI versioning
>   ethdev: increase port_id range
>   examples: increase port_id range
>   test: increase port_id range
>   librte_mbuf: modify port initialization value

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.

There was merge conflict for:
rte_eth_bond_pmd.c
failsafe_private.h
mlx5_rxtx.h

Maintainers of these files cc'ed, can you please double check latest
files in next-net?