Re: [PATCH v2] doc: announce API and ABI change for ethdev

["Yang, Zhiyong" <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>]

Hi, Thomas:
	Need I sent another V3 patch to update commit log according to Remy's suggestion?
Thanks
Zhiyong

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Yang, Zhiyong
> Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 6:35 PM
> To: Horton, Remy <remy.horton@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Tan, Jianfeng <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>; yliu@fridaylinux.org;
> jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com; thomas@monjalon.net
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce API and ABI change for
> ethdev
> 
> Hi, Remy:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Horton, Remy
> > Sent: Friday, August 4, 2017 2:56 PM
> > To: Yang, Zhiyong <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: Tan, Jianfeng <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>; yliu@fridaylinux.org;
> > jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com; thomas@monjalon.net
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce API and ABI change
> > for ethdev
> >
> >
> > On 04/08/2017 06:27, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
> > > This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 on redefinition of
> > > port_id. port_id is defined as uint8_t by now, which is just ranged
> > > from 0 to 255. For more and more scenerioes, more than 256 ports are
> > > needed to support for vdev scalability.
> > >
> > > It is necessary for redefinition of port_id to extend from 1 bytes
> > > to
> > > 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and use cases related to port_id will be
> > > changed at the same time.
> >
> > I think this reads a little better:
> >
> > This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 announcing the
> > redefinition of port_id. port_id is currently defined as uint8_t,
> > which is limited to the range 0 to 255. A larger range is required for vdev
> scalability.
> >
> > It is necessary for a redefinition of port_id to extend it from 1 bytes to 2 bytes.
> > All ethdev APIs and usages related to port_id will be changed at the same time.
> 
> Thanks Remy, of course. Your statement is better. I have a lot of things  to learn
> when speaking in English. I hope I can describe things like you, a native
> speaker. :) Thanks again for your ack.
> 
> Zhiyong
> 
> >
> > >  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>