[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for rte_eth_fdir_filter

Jingjing Wu jingjing.wu at intel.com
Mon Jul 20 09:03:37 CEST 2015


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 <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
---
 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.
-- 
2.4.0



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