[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for ethtool app enhance

[Zhang, Helin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Qiming Yang
> Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2016 11:17 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Yang, Qiming
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for ethtool app
> enhance
> 
> This patch adds a notice that the ABI change for ethtool app to get the NIC
> firmware version in the 17.02 release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang at intel.com>
Acked-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang 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 845d2aa..60bd7ed 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -62,3 +62,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
>  * API will change for ``rte_port_source_params`` and
> ``rte_port_sink_params``
>    structures. The member ``file_name`` data type will be changed from
>    ``char *`` to ``const char *``. This change targets release 16.11.
> +
> +* In 17.02 ABI change is planned: the ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure
> +  will be extended with a new member ``fw_version`` in order to store
> +  the NIC firmware version.
> --
> 2.7.4