From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] doc: announce API and ABI change for ethdev Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:35:52 +0200 Message-ID: <1766596.zY8QiHos5P@xps> References: <20170804052753.35535-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> <20170807124230.3030-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Tan, Jianfeng" , "yliu@fridaylinux.org" , "jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com" , "Horton, Remy" , "shahafs@mellanox.com" To: "Yang, Zhiyong" Return-path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741062BC7 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2017 12:02:53 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" > > 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. > > > > cc: jianfeng.tan@intel.com > > cc: yliu@fridaylinux.org > > cc: jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com > > cc: thomas@monjalon.net > > cc: remy.horton@intel.com > > > > Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang > > Acked-by: Jianfeng Tan > > Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu > > Acked-by: Jerin Jacob > > Acked-by: Remy Horton > > This ack in v2 is added in v3. Thanks, Shahaf. > > Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler Applied, thanks