Acked-by: Olga Shern <olgas at mellanox.com> -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monja...@6wind.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 9:21 AM To: dev at dpdk.org Cc: Marc Sune <marcdevel at gmail.com>; Olga Shern <olgas at mellanox.com>; Matej Vido <matejvido at gmail.com> Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for link speed
A rework was prepared by Marc Sune: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-October/026037.html The goal is to retrieve the supported link speed of a device and to allow 100G devices while having a consistent API. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index a4abb08..f8a41dd 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Deprecation Notices ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss, tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff +* The ethdev structures rte_eth_link, rte_eth_dev_info and rte_eth_conf + must be updated to support 100G link and to have a cleaner link speed API. + * ABI changes is planned for the reta field in struct rte_eth_rss_reta_entry64 which handles at most 256 entries (8 bits) while newer NICs support larger tables (512 entries). -- 2.5.2