From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wenzhuo Lu Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change of rte_fdir_filter, rte_fdir_masks Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:47:29 +0800 Message-ID: <1436410049-32516-1-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB295A65 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 04:47:37 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" For x550 supports 2 new flow director modes, MAC VLAN and Cloud. There're several new lookup fields for these 2 new modes, like MAC, tunnel type, TNI, VNI. So, we have to change the ABI to support these new lookup fields. Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu --- doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst index 110c486..eca4d2b 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst @@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* The ABI changes are planned for struct rte_fdir_filter and rte_fdir_masks in order to support new flow director modes, MAC VLAN and Cloud on x550. The upcoming release 2.1 will not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planed due to this change. Binaries using this library build prior to version 2.2 will require updating and recompilation. -- 1.9.3