From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernard Iremonger Subject: [PATCH v1] doc: announce API and ABI change for librte_ether Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:38:07 +0100 Message-ID: <1476797888-29698-1-git-send-email-bernard.iremonger@intel.com> Cc: Bernard Iremonger To: dev@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63AE81396 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:38:13 +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" In 17.02 five rte_eth_dev_set_vf_*** functions will be removed from librte_ether, renamed and moved to the ixgbe PMD. Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 1d274d8..20e11ac 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -53,3 +53,39 @@ Deprecation Notices * librte_ether: an API change is planned for 17.02 for the function ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int`` instead of ``void`` and a fourth parameter ``void *ret_param`` will be added. + +* librte_ether: for 17.02 it is planned to deprecate the following five functions: + + ``rte_eth_dev_set_vf_rxmode`` + + ``rte_eth_dev_set_vf_rx`` + + ``rte_eth_dev_set_vf_tx`` + + ``rte_eth_dev_set_vf_vlan_filter`` + + ``rte_eth_set_vf_rate_limit`` + + The following fields will be removed from ``struct eth_dev_ops``: + + ``eth_set_vf_rx_mode_t`` + + ``eth_set_vf_rx_t`` + + ``eth_set_vf_tx_t`` + + ``eth_set_vf_vlan_filter_t`` + + ``eth_set_vf_rate_limit_t`` + + The functions will be renamed to the following, and moved to the ``ixgbe`` PMD. + + ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_rxmode`` + + ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_rx`` + + ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_tx`` + + ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_vlan_filter`` + + ``rte_pmd_ixgbe_set_vf_rate_limit`` -- 2.10.1