[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for extending filtering support

Rahul Lakkireddy rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com
Tue Dec 15 15:10:53 CET 2015


Current filtering support will be enhanced to accommodate support
for Chelsio T5 hardware filtering support.

Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras at chelsio.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index f8a41dd..15e766d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -41,3 +41,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
   commands (such as RETA update in testpmd).  This should impact
   CMDLINE_PARSE_RESULT_BUFSIZE, STR_TOKEN_SIZE and RDLINE_BUF_SIZE.
   It should be integrated in release 2.3.
+
+* ABI changes are planned for rte_eth_ipv4_flow and rte_eth_ipv6_flow to
+  include more fields to be matched against. The release 2.2 does not
+  contain these ABI changes, but release 2.3 will.
+
+* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts
+  RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes,
+  but release 2.3 will.
-- 
2.5.3



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