For the ABI compatibility it is better to hide internal data structures from the application as much as possible. But because of some inline functions 'struct eth_dev_ops' can't be hidden completely.
Plan is to split the 'struct eth_dev_ops' into two as ones used by inline functions and ones not used, and hide the second part that not used by inline functions completely to the application. Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> --- Cc: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <arybche...@solarflare.com> v2: * Add target date for the work * Give more detail on what will be done --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 99d81564a..ff612a615 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -86,6 +86,17 @@ Deprecation Notices In 19.11 PMDs will still update the field even when the offload is not enabled. +* ethdev: Split the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct to hide it as much as possible. + Currently the ``struct eth_dev_ops`` struct is accessible by the application + because some inline functions, like ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status()``, + access the struct directly. The struct will be separate in two, the ops used + by inline functions still will be accessible to user but rest will be hidden. + Initial split will be done in 20.05 with adding reserved fields for the struct + used by inline functions, and by putting new struct reference into public one + to not increase the size of ``struct rte_eth_dev``, proper split will be done + in 20.11 by moving inline dev_ops function to next to Rx/Tx burst functions and + hiding rest. + * cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal -- 2.24.1
