[dpdk-dev,v1,1/2] doc: update ixgbe guide

Message ID 1476462909-14891-2-git-send-email-bernard.iremonger@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Commit Message

Iremonger, Bernard Oct. 14, 2016, 4:35 p.m. UTC
  add information about new ixgbe PMD API.

Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Comments

John McNamara Nov. 3, 2016, 12:46 p.m. UTC | #1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iremonger, Bernard
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 5:35 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> Cc: Iremonger, Bernard <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v1 1/2] doc: update ixgbe guide
> 
> add information about new ixgbe PMD API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>

Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
  
Thomas Monjalon Nov. 7, 2016, 3:51 p.m. UTC | #2
> > add information about new ixgbe PMD API.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

Applied without patch 2 and squashed with release notes
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
index ed260c4..3b6851b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ 
 ..  BSD LICENSE
-    Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
+    Copyright(c) 2010-2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
     All rights reserved.
 
     Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -147,6 +147,11 @@  The following MACROs are used for these three features:
 
 *   ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NOXSUMTCP
 
+Application Programming Interface
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+In DPDK release v16.11 an API for ixgbe specific functions has been added to the ixgbe PMD.
+The declarations for the API functions are in the header ``rte_pmd_ixgbe.h``.
 
 Sample Application Notes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~