Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce: make rte intr handle internal

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

> > > Moving struct rte_intr_handle as an internal structure to
> > > avoid any ABI breakages in future. Since this structure defines
> > > some static arrays and changing respective macros breaks the ABI.
> > > Eg:
> > > Currently RTE_MAX_RXTX_INTR_VEC_ID imposes a limit of maximum 512
> > > MSI-X interrupts that can be defined for a PCI device, while PCI
> > > specification allows maximum 2048 MSI-X interrupts that can be used.
> > > If some PCI device requires more than 512 vectors, either change the
> > > RTE_MAX_RXTX_INTR_VEC_ID limit or dynamically allocate based on
> > > PCI device MSI-X size on probe time. Either way its an ABI breakage.
> > >
> > > Discussion thread:
> > > https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-March/202959.html
> > >
> > > Change already included in 21.11 ABI improvement spreadsheet (item 42):
> > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1betlC000ua5SsSiJIcC54mCCCJnW6voH5Dqv9U
> > > xeyfE/edit#gid=0
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Harman Kalra <hkalra@marvell.com>
> > > ---
> > > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > > +* eal: Making ``struct rte_intr_handle`` internal to avoid any ABI breakages
> > > +  in future.
> > > +
> >
> > Acked-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>

Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>

Applied, thanks.