IPv4 header encodes fragment information into 16 bits field.
3 bits hold flags and remaining 13 bits are for fragment offset.
13 bits bit-field cannot be defined both for big and little endian
systems.
The patch removes IPv4 fragments union announce.
Fixes: f7383e7c7ec1 ("net: announce changes in IPv4 header access")
Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 309f1056cf..841653fe30 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -158,11 +158,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
consistent with existing outer header checksum status flag naming, which
should help in reducing confusion about its usage.
-* net: The structure ``rte_ipv4_hdr`` will have two unions.
- The first union is for existing ``version_ihl`` byte
- and new bitfield for version and IHL.
- The second union is for existing ``fragment_offset``
- and new bitfield for fragment flags and offset.
+* net: The structure ``rte_ipv4_hdr`` will have a union for
+ existing ``version_ihl`` byte and new bitfield for ``version`` and ``ihl``.
* vhost: ``rte_vdpa_register_device``, ``rte_vdpa_unregister_device``,
``rte_vhost_host_notifier_ctrl`` and ``rte_vdpa_relay_vring_used`` vDPA
--
2.33.0
