There is no backward compatibility planned from release 2.2.
All binaries will need to be rebuilt from release 2.2.
-* The EAL function rte_eal_pci_close_one is deprecated because renamed to
- rte_eal_pci_detach.
-
* The Macros RTE_HASH_BUCKET_ENTRIES_MAX and RTE_HASH_KEY_LENGTH_MAX are
deprecated and will be removed with version 2.2.
* The function rte_jhash2 is deprecated and should be removed.
-* The field mem_location of the rte_lpm structure is deprecated and should be
- removed as well as the macros RTE_LPM_HEAP and RTE_LPM_MEMZONE.
-
-* Significant ABI changes are planned for struct rte_mbuf, struct rte_kni_mbuf,
- and several ``PKT_RX_`` flags will be removed, to support unified packet type
- from release 2.1. Those changes may be enabled in the upcoming release 2.1
- with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
-
-* librte_malloc library has been integrated into librte_eal. The 2.1 release
- creates a dummy/empty malloc library to fulfill binaries with dynamic linking
- dependencies on librte_malloc.so. Such dummy library will not be created from
- release 2.2 so binaries will need to be rebuilt.
-
* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats:
imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
flow director filtering in VF. The release 2.1 does not contain these ABI
changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.
-* ABI change is planned to extend the SCTP flow's key input from release 2.1.
- The change may be enabled in the release 2.1 with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
-
* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_filter and
rte_eth_fdir_masks in order to support new flow director modes,
MAC VLAN and Cloud, on x550. The MAC VLAN mode means the MAC and
the tunnel type, TNI/VNI, inner MAC and inner VLAN are monitored.
The release 2.2 will contain these changes without backwards compatibility.
-* librte_kni: Functions based on port id are deprecated for a long time and
- should be removed (rte_kni_create, rte_kni_get_port_id and rte_kni_info_get).
-
* librte_pmd_ring: The deprecated functions rte_eth_ring_pair_create and
rte_eth_ring_pair_attach should be removed.
* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of
RED actions.
-* librte_acl: The structure rte_acl_ipv4vlan_rule is deprecated and should
- be removed as well as the associated functions rte_acl_ipv4vlan_add_rules
- and rte_acl_ipv4vlan_build.
-
* librte_cfgfile: In order to allow for longer names and values,
the value of macros CFG_NAME_LEN and CFG_NAME_VAL will be increased.
Most likely, the new values will be 64 and 256, respectively.