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

Jijiang Liu jijiang.liu at intel.com
Mon Dec 7 04:01:47 CET 2015


Announce ABI change for struct rte_eth_conf.

Signed-off-by: Jijiang Liu <jijiang.liu at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 1c7ab01..f50f0c7 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
   and table action handlers will be updated:
   the pipeline parameter will be added, the packets mask parameter will be
   either removed (for input port action handler) or made input-only.
+
+* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_conf in order to support
+  tunneling packet configuration in unified tunneling API. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI
+  changes, but release 2.3 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.
-- 
1.7.7.6



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