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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: notice for changes in kni structures
Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 08:50:54 -0700
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On Wed, 3 May 2017 17:01:31 +0530
Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index a3e7c72..0c1ef2c 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -81,3 +81,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
>  
>    - ``rte_crpytodev_scheduler_mode_get``, replaced by ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_mode_get``
>    - ``rte_crpytodev_scheduler_mode_set``, replaced by ``rte_cryptodev_scheduler_mode_set``
> +
> +* kni: additional functionality is planned to be added in kni to support mtu, macaddr,
> +  gso_size, promiscusity configuration.
> +  some of the kni structure will be changed to support additional functionality
> +  e.g  ``rte_kni_request`` to support promiscusity`` and mac_addr,
> +  ``rte_kni_mbu`` to support the configured gso_size,
> +  ``rte_kni_device_info`` and ``rte_kni_conf`` to also support mtu and macaddr.

Why are these exposed as something applications should care about?
The data structures in rte_kni_common.h are not an API