From patchwork Mon Jul 20 07:03:37 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jingjing Wu X-Patchwork-Id: 6516 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 339F8C3DE; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:03:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 191EEC3DC for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:03:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Jul 2015 00:03:44 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.15,507,1432623600"; d="scan'208";a="767491271" Received: from shvmail01.sh.intel.com ([10.239.29.42]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Jul 2015 00:03:44 -0700 Received: from shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (shecgisg004.sh.intel.com [10.239.29.89]) by shvmail01.sh.intel.com with ESMTP id t6K73gne001529; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:03:42 +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 t6K73c8T011308; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:03:40 +0800 Received: (from wujingji@localhost) by shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id t6K73cgn011304; Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:03:38 +0800 From: Jingjing Wu To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:03:37 +0800 Message-Id: <1437375817-11274-1-git-send-email-jingjing.wu@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for rte_eth_fdir_filter 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" To fix the FVL's flow director issue for SCTP flow, rte_eth_fdir_filter need to be change to support SCTP flow keys extension. Here announce the ABI deprecation. Signed-off-by: jingjing.wu Acked-by: Wenzhuo Lu Acked-by: Cunming Liang Acked-by: John McNamara Acked-by: John McNamara --- 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 5330d3b..63e19c7 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -35,3 +35,7 @@ Deprecation Notices * The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats: imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss, tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff + +* Significant ABI change is planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_filter to extend + the SCTP flow's key input from release 2.1. The change may be enabled in + the upcoming release 2.1 with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.