There is no backward compatibility planned from release 2.2.
All binaries will need to be rebuilt from release 2.2.
-* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_intr_handle, struct rte_eth_conf
- and struct eth_dev_ops to support interrupt mode feature from release 2.1.
- Those changes may be enabled in the release 2.1 with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.
-
* 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.
-* 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.
+* 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.
* 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
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.
+
* ABI changes are planned for struct virtio_net in order to support vhost-user
multiple queues feature.
It should be integrated in release 2.2 without backward compatibility.