From patchwork Thu Jul 6 15:07:51 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Stephen Hemminger X-Patchwork-Id: 26547 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net 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 351602B96; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 17:08:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-pf0-f171.google.com (mail-pf0-f171.google.com [209.85.192.171]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F822C8 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 17:08:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pf0-f171.google.com with SMTP id q85so2386742pfq.1 for ; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:08:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=YOfj4eR1jc5i4CtYH6I20p3wnML8ahUIQBazujwotsc=; b=c1ZR+z9ea9oldo4jNUmEJxd3aL+/yGAXbFCVXWiQAWW/bOk0YsC+KGC2BcDLCPrsBJ qS07LnfDNB1OutT8JSDmgZX3XHtSGY+OFaBhfIKxT+u1O6Gh9XUOI6y6ybQfxg4cOwl5 QXKIsKvqFRNaMY/BS54ysRUn2U6ov5O2wdbv22yFu9ZNTD6N8L6/vLhVhc2ChHRjYoz2 Gv+Q1KMe4apmlJch7ZRjTwNcePO0Cm8DwHvMma+Nm9Tm+MDxRUjjU2WkEshkXbFiiUEA JZoZK23gM7/Btnw4cHmOuEbHshmYI2mney2IDuVPt0XkO46qwhGbPQb2RvG2czFHod/+ enEw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=YOfj4eR1jc5i4CtYH6I20p3wnML8ahUIQBazujwotsc=; b=RjGs+SEIgVEBk4isotu7YvpYXNTI10g+M2XQ6UxZPHCjiA9e2KSCrTaQJ2mNtiBaHI xRUkyvAyirCjtsEZOzREou9dqLkIQQhFVOpwPOyMqxStpl6MoUhJ9viTRllb3C1wapEL 33zSsconLtwCtG9T3DCGz5G03FU40Noni0WYNgym93tzInwQjWx/ZCp+PzTj7ncmKDo0 8STYDnKcetOjcLTyoj6OzwbVxQh7R+ulEGLYJCu1FS8L8ZtDhTdeDi/mPaNvKQMpbxg8 oXlQU3/+wT2RbJHMte24CYtm7jq8clvTff9Pq5Tgrf0PWqx4MUGBLApvX/c5IuZ4N2Lq 7xRw== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw111S6IdxmatQMRRfepq2hLh5uRhQXMGYhr9xBop/q/8OJUDV8aR5 pA/G5weDUzlwawm7CHKg0Q== X-Received: by 10.101.91.15 with SMTP id y15mr26220905pgq.88.1499353682563; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xeon-e3.wavecable.com (76-14-207-240.or.wavecable.com. [76.14.207.240]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k129sm831339pfc.87.2017.07.06.08.08.01 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:08:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Hemminger To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 08:07:51 -0700 Message-Id: <20170706150751.27251-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: add notice for planned name size change X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" VMBUS support will use GUID in eth_dev_data name field which requires at least 37 characters. Plan for increase in size now. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Yongseok Koh Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- 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 2e708dbe0deb..d5b70c50064a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -95,3 +95,7 @@ Deprecation Notices The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed (including the ``signature_offset`` parameter) and the "do-sig" versions renamed accordingly. + +* ethdev: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure eth_dev_data. + The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to + 64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field.