From patchwork Mon May 16 13:18:29 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Fan Zhang X-Patchwork-Id: 12788 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1733A9AE7; Mon, 16 May 2016 15:18:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F3F9AAD for ; Mon, 16 May 2016 15:18:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 16 May 2016 06:18:33 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,627,1455004800"; d="scan'208";a="955481062" Received: from sie-lab-212-033.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa00383881.ir.intel.com) ([10.237.212.33]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 16 May 2016 06:18:32 -0700 From: Fan Zhang To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 14:18:29 +0100 Message-Id: <1463404710-25146-2-git-send-email-roy.fan.zhang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.5 In-Reply-To: <1463404710-25146-1-git-send-email-roy.fan.zhang@intel.com> References: <1463404710-25146-1-git-send-email-roy.fan.zhang@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] doc: announce ABI change of struct rte_port_source_params X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" The ABI changes are planned for rte_port_source_params, which will be supported from release 16.11. Here announces that ABI changes in detail. Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index fffe9c7..d228bae 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -74,3 +74,7 @@ Deprecation Notices a handle, like the way kernel exposes an fd to user for locating a specific file, and to keep all major structures internally, so that we are likely to be free from ABI violations in future. + +* ABI will change for rte_port_source_params struct. The member file_name + data type will be changed from char * to const char *. This change targets + release 16.11.