From: Qiming Yang Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 03:16:42 +0000 (+0800) Subject: doc: announce ABI change for firmware version in ethdev X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~5322 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?p=dpdk.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=4726bb4269d331d22119df005b8843e8a1060995 doc: announce ABI change for firmware version in ethdev This patch adds a notice that the ABI change for ethtool app to get the NIC firmware version in the 17.02 release. Signed-off-by: Qiming Yang Acked-by: Jingjing Wu Acked-by: Beilei Xing Acked-by: Helin Zhang --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index a1e52216af..2d17bc6eac 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ Deprecation Notices ``nb_seg_max`` and ``nb_mtu_seg_max`` providing information about number of segments limit to be transmitted by device for TSO/non-TSO packets. +* In 17.02 ABI change is planned: the ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure + will be extended with a new member ``fw_version`` in order to store + the NIC firmware version. + * ethdev: an API change is planned for 17.02 for the function ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int`` instead of ``void`` and a fourth parameter ``void *ret_param`` will be added.