[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] doc: announce ethdev ABI change for rte_eth_dev_info.

[Thomas Monjalon]

22/11/2018 18:15, Thomas Monjalon:
> 22/11/2018 13:11, Ferruh Yigit:
> > On 11/22/2018 12:09 PM, Ian Stokes wrote:
> > > Maximum and minimum MTU values vary between hardware devices. In
> > > hardware agnostic DPDK applications access to such information would
> > > allow a more accurate way of validating and setting supported MTU values on
> > > a per device basis rather than using a defined default for all devices.
> > > 
> > > The following solution was proposed:
> > > 
> > > http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-September/110959.html
> > > 
> > > This patch adds a depreciation notice for ``rte_eth_dev_info`` as new
> > > members will be added to represent min and max MTU values. These can be
> > > added to fit a hole in the existing structure for amd64 but not for 32 bit,
> > > as such ABI change will occur as size of the structure will be impacted.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>

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