[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce change in IPv6 item struct

[Andrew Rybchenko]

On 8/3/20 10:51 PM, Dekel Peled wrote:
> 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>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ea4cfa7..5201142 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    break the ABI checks, that is why change is planned for 20.11.
>    The list of internal APIs are mainly ones listed in ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``.
>  
> +* 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.
> +

I agree that extra information is required in rte_flow_item_ipv6, but
I'm not
sure about proposed solution details. Taking it into account:

Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>