[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce change in IPv6 item struct
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Aug 6 14:30:37 CEST 2020
03/08/2020 21:51, Dekel Peled:
> Struct rte_flow_item_ipv6 will be modified to include additional
> values, indicating existence or absence of IPv6 extension headers
> following the IPv6 header, as proposed in RFC
> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177257.html.
> Because of ABI break this change is proposed for 20.11.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp at mellanox.com>
> ---
> +* ethdev: The ``struct rte_flow_item_ipv6`` struct will be modified to include
> + additional values, indicating existence or absence of IPv6 extension headers
> + following the IPv6 header, as proposed in RFC
> + https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177257.html.
That's the same idea as VLAN item, but for IPv6 extensions.
We need to address the issues of variable header parts with rte_flow, so
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
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