[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce change in ETH and VLAN item structs

[Thomas Monjalon]

> > >> Structs rte_flow_item_eth and rte_flow_item_vlan will be modified,
> > >> to include an additional value, indicating existence or absence of VLAN
> > >> headers following the current header, as proposed in RFC
> > >> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177536.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_eth`` and ``struct
> > rte_flow_item_vlan``
> > >> +  structs will be modified, to include an additional value, indicating
> > existence
> > >> +  or absence of a VLAN header following the current header, as
> > proposed in RFC
> > >> +  https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-August/177536.html.
> > > Specifying match patterns on none or multiple extensions
> > > is difficult to manage with rte_flow.
> > > It seems this approach of adding explicit fields in the items
> > > can work well.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> >
> > Similar to IPv6, it looks required to add extra information to ETH (and may
> > be VLAN) item, but I'm not sure that proposed solution is 100% OK.
> > Anyway, the scope of the deprecation notice is ongoing changes, so:
> >
> > Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
> Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
> Acked-by: Ori Kam <orika at mellanox.com>

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