From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce API change for ethdev port info Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:50:55 +0100 Message-ID: <44436245.kbII4kygmp@xps> References: <1508164067-22952-1-git-send-email-ivan.boule@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, olivier.matz@6wind.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com To: Ivan Boule Return-path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D4329C7 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:51:01 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1508164067-22952-1-git-send-email-ivan.boule@6wind.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 16/10/2017 16:27, Ivan Boule: > To help administrative tasks on ports, new per-port information need > to be added into the data structure rte_eth_dev_info supplied by the > dev_infos_get() function exported by a Poll Mode Driver. > > See http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-September/074885.html for > details. > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Boule > Acked-by: Olivier Matz > --- > +* librte_ether: additional fields will be added into the ``rte_eth_dev_info`` > + structure in 18.02, breaking the API. These fields will contain: > + > + - the set of supported link modes, > + - the set of advertised link modes, > + - the type of port connector, > + - autonegotiation enabled or not. This patch is not accepted in 17.11 for following reasons: - it requires at least 3 acks - we are not going to break API in 18.02, except maybe for EAL devargs - the link mode is redundant with the speed capabilities - such fields require work (and time) for every PMD to be fully supported - we should discuss more generally which infos are in the scope of this function Sorry for the short notice, I was waiting for comments and to see if other deprecations were sent (or not) for ethdev.