From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Reshma Pattan Subject: [PATCH v5 9/9] doc: announce ABI change for rte_eth_dev_info structure Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:38:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1465393107-32587-10-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> References: <1464039512-2683-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> <1465393107-32587-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> Cc: Reshma Pattan To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E91CADFF for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:38:33 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1465393107-32587-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" New fields nb_rx_queues and nb_tx_queues will be added to rte_eth_dev_info structure. Changes to API rte_eth_dev_info_get() will be done to update these new fields to rte_eth_dev_info object. Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index ad05eba..04316fb 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -57,3 +57,9 @@ Deprecation Notices a handle, like the way kernel exposes an fd to user for locating a specific file, and to keep all major structures internally, so that we are likely to be free from ABI violations in future. + +* A librte_ether public structure ``rte_eth_dev_info`` will be changed in 16.07. + The proposed change will add new parameters ``nb_rx_queues``, ``nb_tx_queues`` + to the structure. These are the number of queues configured by software. + Modification to definition of ``rte_eth_dev_info_get()`` will be done + to update new parameters to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` object. -- 2.5.0