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
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.
+
* 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.