From patchwork Tue Aug 11 02:12:04 2015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jingjing Wu X-Patchwork-Id: 6729 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 7D1475A8A; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:12:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229255A6D for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 04:12:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Aug 2015 19:12:12 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.15,649,1432623600"; d="scan'208";a="539480494" Received: from shvmail01.sh.intel.com ([10.239.29.42]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Aug 2015 19:12:12 -0700 Received: from shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (shecgisg004.sh.intel.com [10.239.29.89]) by shvmail01.sh.intel.com with ESMTP id t7B2CAUf021884; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:12:10 +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 t7B2C6mQ023798; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:12:08 +0800 Received: (from wujingji@localhost) by shecgisg004.sh.intel.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id t7B2C6BO023794; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:12:06 +0800 From: Jingjing Wu To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:12:04 +0800 Message-Id: <1439259124-23762-1-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 old flow director APIs removing 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List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" APIs for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl by previous releases. Enic, ixgbe and i40e are switched to support filter_ctrl APIs, so the old APIs are useless, and ready to be removed now. This patch announces the ABI change for these APIs removing. Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu Acked-by: Helin Zhang Acked-by: Jijiang Liu --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 5330d3b..b1be38f 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -35,3 +35,39 @@ 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 + +* APIs for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl. + Following old APIs, and data structures are deprecated and will be removed + with version 2.2. There is no backward compatibility planned from release 2.2. + APIs: + rte_eth_dev_fdir_add_signature_filter + rte_eth_dev_fdir_update_signature_filter + rte_eth_dev_fdir_remove_signature_filter + rte_eth_dev_fdir_get_infos + rte_eth_dev_fdir_add_perfect_filter + rte_eth_dev_fdir_update_perfect_filter + rte_eth_dev_fdir_remove_perfect_filter + rte_eth_dev_fdir_set_masks + Data structures: + struct rte_fdir_filter + struct rte_fdir_masks + struct rte_eth_fdir + fields in struct eth_dev_ops + fdir_add_signature_filter + fdir_update_signature_filter + fdir_remove_signature_filter + fdir_infos_get + fdir_add_perfect_filter + fdir_update_perfect_filter + fdir_remove_perfect_filter + fdir_set_masks + enum rte_l4type + enum rte_iptype + fdir_add_signature_filter_t + fdir_update_signature_filter_t + fdir_remove_signature_filter_t + fdir_infos_get_t + fdir_add_perfect_filter_t + fdir_update_perfect_filter_t + fdir_remove_perfect_filter_t + fdir_set_masks_t