[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix ABI breakage in lro code

[Neil Horman]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:47:03AM +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neil Horman [mailto:nhorman at tuxdriver.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 11:42 AM
> > To: Mcnamara, John
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org; vladz at cloudius-systems.com
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix ABI breakage in lro code
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:26:25AM +0100, John McNamara wrote:
> > > Fix for ABI breakage introduced in LRO addition. Moves lro bitfield to
> > > the end of the struct/member.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 8eecb3295aed (ixgbe: add LRO support)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
> > > ---
> > >  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> > > b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h index 79bde89..1c3ace1 100644
> > > --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> > > +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> > > @@ -1578,9 +1578,9 @@ struct rte_eth_dev_data {
> > >  	uint8_t port_id;           /**< Device [external] port identifier.
> > */
> > >  	uint8_t promiscuous   : 1, /**< RX promiscuous mode ON(1) / OFF(0).
> > */
> > >  		scattered_rx : 1,  /**< RX of scattered packets is ON(1) /
> > OFF(0) */
> > > -		lro          : 1,  /**< RX LRO is ON(1) / OFF(0) */
> > >  		all_multicast : 1, /**< RX all multicast mode ON(1) / OFF(0).
> > */
> > > -		dev_started : 1;   /**< Device state: STARTED(1) / STOPPED(0).
> > */
> > > +		dev_started : 1,   /**< Device state: STARTED(1) / STOPPED(0).
> > */
> > > +		lro         : 1;   /**< RX LRO is ON(1) / OFF(0) */
> > >  };
> > >
> > >  /**
> > > --
> > > 1.8.1.4
> > >
> > >
> > I presume the ABI checker stopped complaining about this with the patch,
> > yes?
> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> Yes, I replied about that in the previous thread.
> 
Thank you, I'll ack as soon as Chao confirms its not a problem on ppc
Neil

> John.
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