Re: [PATCH] doc: announce API and ABI change for ethdev

[Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 03:58:46PM +0800, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
>   This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 on redefinition of

Don't put 2 whitespace char indentation here.

> port_id. port_id is defined as uint8_t by now, which is just ranged
> from 0 to 255. For more and more scenerioes, more than 256 devices are
> needed to support for vdev scalability.
> 
>   It is necessary for redefinition of port_id to extend from 1 bytes
> to 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and use cases related to port_id will be
> changed at the same time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 257dcba..f265980 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
>    PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
>  
> +* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.11 in the "rte_eth_dev_data" structure.

That's for ABI only and you missed the API part. Meaning, you need also
mention that all APIs have port_id parameter will be changed too.

Also, rte_eth_dev_data is not the only structure has ABI changes. There
are few more (for instance, rte_port_ethdev.h). As said before, you don't
have to list all of them, but at least you should not list one example
only as it seems that's the only structure has ABI change.

> +  Change the definition of port_id from 8bits to 16bits in order to support
> +  more than 256 devices in DPDK.

8bits -> 8 bits. You might want to reword it further. Besides that, this
change is indeed needed. Thus,

Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>

	--yliu
> +
>  * librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables
>    that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype.
>    The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed
> -- 
> 2.9.3