Re: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change to support VF representors

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:27:50 +0000
> From: "Boccassi, Luca" <luca.boccassi@intl.att.com>
> To: "shahafs@mellanox.com" <shahafs@mellanox.com>, "thomas@monjalon.net"
>  <thomas@monjalon.net>, "nhorman@tuxdriver.com" <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> CC: "remy.horton@intel.com" <remy.horton@intel.com>,
>  "mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com" <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>,
>  "declan.doherty@intel.com" <declan.doherty@intel.com>,
>  "ferruh.yigit@intel.com" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org"
>  <dev@dpdk.org>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change to support VF
>  representors
> 
> On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 14:32 +0200, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> > This is following the RFC being discussed and targets 18.05
> > 
> > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/085716.html
> > 
> > Cc: declan.doherty@intel.com
> > Cc: mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com
> > Cc: ferruh.yigit@intel.com
> > Cc: remy.horton@intel.com
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > index d59ad5988..f6151de63 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >    be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of
> > the
> >    structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on
> >    platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms.
> > +
> > +* ethdev: A work is being planned for 18.05 to expose VF port
> > representors
> > +  as a mean to perform control and data path operation on the
> > different VFs.
> > +  As VF representor is an ethdev port, new fields are needed in
> > order to map
> > +  between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new
> > fields
> > +  are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct.
> 
> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@intl.att.com>
> Acked-by: Alex Zelezniak <alexz@att.com>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>

> 
> Acking on behalf of my colleague Alex as well, who replied privately.
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi