From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Rybchenko Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] doc: announce ethdev ABI change for rte_eth_dev_info. Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 11:08:08 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1542888549-24656-1-git-send-email-ian.stokes@intel.com> <30f1a1d5-e38e-c933-e0d0-9800b2470706@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , Qi Zhang , "Shahaf Shuler" , Alejandro Lucero , Rahul Lakkireddy To: Ferruh Yigit , Ian Stokes , Return-path: Received: from dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com [67.231.154.164]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26AA61B4EB for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 09:08:22 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <30f1a1d5-e38e-c933-e0d0-9800b2470706@intel.com> Content-Language: en-GB List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 11/22/18 9:27 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > On 11/22/2018 12:09 PM, Ian Stokes wrote: >> Maximum and minimum MTU values vary between hardware devices. In >> hardware agnostic DPDK applications access to such information would >> allow a more accurate way of validating and setting supported MTU values on >> a per device basis rather than using a defined default for all devices. >> >> The following solution was proposed: >> >> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-September/110959.html >> >> This patch adds a depreciation notice for ``rte_eth_dev_info`` as new >> members will be added to represent min and max MTU values. These can be >> added to fit a hole in the existing structure for amd64 but not for 32 bit, >> as such ABI change will occur as size of the structure will be impacted. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko