From patchwork Mon Nov 5 17:09:40 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ferruh Yigit X-Patchwork-Id: 47822 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 [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3254CC5; Mon, 5 Nov 2018 18:09:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga17.intel.com (mga17.intel.com [192.55.52.151]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F8E4CBD for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2018 18:09:46 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by fmsmga107.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 05 Nov 2018 09:09:44 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.54,468,1534834800"; d="scan'208";a="89603341" Received: from silpixa00399752.ir.intel.com (HELO silpixa00399752.ger.corp.intel.com) ([10.237.222.212]) by orsmga008.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Nov 2018 09:09:43 -0800 From: Ferruh Yigit To: John McNamara , Marko Kovacevic Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit , Thomas Monjalon Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 17:09:40 +0000 Message-Id: <20181105170940.70602-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.2 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: document KNI limitation in release notes 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" Commit a9460a0b2efb ("kni: fix build on Linux 4.19") disables some ethtool commands because they are removed in newer (4.19) kernels. This patch documents removed functionality. Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst index 27b67e0fd..6ce276b22 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst @@ -377,6 +377,12 @@ API Changes * eventdev: Type of 2nd parameter to ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_caps_get()`` has been changed from uint8_t to uint16_t. +* KNI, when ethtool support enabled (``CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD_ETHTOOL=y``) + ethtool commands ``ETHTOOL_GSET & ETHTOOL_SSET`` are no more supported for the + kernels that has ``ETHTOOL_GLINKSETTINGS & ETHTOOL_SLINKSETTINGS`` support. + This means ``ethtool "-a|--show-pause", "-s|--change"`` won't work, and + ``ethtool `` output will have less information. + ABI Changes -----------