[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: ethdev ABI change deprecation notice

Kirill Rybalchenko kirill.rybalchenko at intel.com
Fri Jan 12 11:27:15 CET 2018


Signed-off-by: Kirill Rybalchenko <kirill.rybalchenko at intel.com>

Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 13e8543..f0589ea 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
   PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
 
+* ethdev: anounce ABI change
+  The size of variables flow_types_mask in rte_eth_fdir_info structure,
+  sym_hash_enable_mask and valid_bit_mask in rte_eth_hash_global_conf structure
+  will be increased from 32 to 64 bits to fulfill hardware requirements.
+  This change will break existing ABI as size of the structures will increase.
+
 * i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
   bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
   required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
-- 
2.5.5



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