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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for struct
	rte_eth_conf
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 04:16:47 +0100
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2015-12-07 11:01, Jijiang Liu:
> +* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_conf in order to support
> +  tunneling packet configuration in unified tunneling API. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI
> +  changes, but release 2.3 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.

Please, more details would be appreciated.
We need to decide whether an ABI deprecation is the right choice.