From patchwork Wed Jun 17 03:36:33 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jingjing Wu X-Patchwork-Id: 5460 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 26868C396; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 05:36:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0BCC380 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 05:36:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 16 Jun 2015 20:36:42 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,630,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="744868675" Received: from shvmail01.sh.intel.com ([10.239.29.42]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 16 Jun 2015 20:36:41 -0700 Received: from shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (shecgisg004.sh.intel.com [10.239.29.89]) by shvmail01.sh.intel.com with ESMTP id t5H3adjA012265; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:36:39 +0800 Received: from shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id t5H3aaRB021198; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:36:38 +0800 Received: (from wujingji@localhost) by shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id t5H3aZGM021162; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:36:35 +0800 From: Jingjing Wu To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:36:33 +0800 Message-Id: <1434512193-20973-1-git-send-email-jingjing.wu@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] abi: announce abi changes plan for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext 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" It announces the planned ABI change to support flow director filtering in VF on v2.2. Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu --- doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst index f00a6ee..b8d7cc8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst @@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* The ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext in order to support flow director filtering in VF. The upcoming release 2.1 will not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planed due to this change. Binaries using this library build prior to version 2.2 will require updating and recompilation.