[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce API change for ethdev port info

[Olivier MATZ]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:50:55AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 16/10/2017 16:27, Ivan Boule:
> > To help administrative tasks on ports, new per-port information need
> > to be added into the data structure rte_eth_dev_info supplied by the
> > dev_infos_get() function exported by a Poll Mode Driver.
> > 
> > See http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-September/074885.html for
> > details.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ivan Boule <ivan.boule at 6wind.com>
> > Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> > ---
> > +* librte_ether: additional fields will be added into the ``rte_eth_dev_info``
> > +  structure in 18.02, breaking the API. These fields will contain:
> > +
> > +  - the set of supported link modes,
> > +  - the set of advertised link modes,
> > +  - the type of port connector,
> > +  - autonegotiation enabled or not.
> 
> This patch is not accepted in 17.11 for following reasons:
> - it requires at least 3 acks
> - we are not going to break API in 18.02, except maybe for EAL devargs
> - the link mode is redundant with the speed capabilities
> - such fields require work (and time) for every PMD to be fully supported
> - we should discuss more generally which infos are in the scope of this function
> 
> Sorry for the short notice, I was waiting for comments and to see if
> other deprecations were sent (or not) for ethdev.

Thomas, be aware that it's very frustrating to have this kind feedback 9
weeks after the submission of the RFC, and few days before the release.

Olivier