From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: [PATCH] ethdev: add notice for planned name size change Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 08:07:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20170706150751.27251-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f171.google.com (mail-pf0-f171.google.com [209.85.192.171]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F822C8 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 17:08:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pf0-f171.google.com with SMTP id q85so2386742pfq.1 for ; Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:08:03 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" VMBUS support will use GUID in eth_dev_data name field which requires at least 37 characters. Plan for increase in size now. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 2e708dbe0deb..d5b70c50064a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -95,3 +95,7 @@ Deprecation Notices The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed (including the ``signature_offset`` parameter) and the "do-sig" versions renamed accordingly. + +* ethdev: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure eth_dev_data. + The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to + 64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field. -- 2.11.0