[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce API and ABI change for ethdev

[Shahaf Shuler]

Friday, August 4, 2017 9:56 AM, Remy Horton:
> On 04/08/2017 06:27, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
> > This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 on redefinition of
> > port_id. port_id is defined as uint8_t by now, which is just ranged
> > from 0 to 255. For more and more scenerioes, more than 256 ports are
> > needed to support for vdev scalability.
> >
> > It is necessary for redefinition of port_id to extend from 1 bytes to
> > 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and use cases related to port_id will be
> > changed at the same time.
> 
> I think this reads a little better:
> 
> This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 announcing the redefinition
> of port_id. port_id is currently defined as uint8_t, which is limited to the
> range 0 to 255. A larger range is required for vdev scalability.
> 
> It is necessary for a redefinition of port_id to extend it from 1 bytes to 2
> bytes. All ethdev APIs and usages related to port_id will be changed at the
> same time.
> 
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com>

Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>