lpm: fix allocation of an existing object

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_16_04.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
index 8e565ab..b0f3dba 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ This section should contain new features added in this release. Sample format:
   The structure ``rte_eth_dev_info`` has now a ``speed_capa`` bitmap, which
   allows the application to know the supported speeds of each device.
 
+* **Added bitmap of link speeds to advertise.**
+
+  Allow defining a set of advertised speeds for auto-negotiation,
+  explicitly disabling link auto-negotiation (single speed)
+  and full auto-negotiation.
+
 * **Added new poll-mode driver for Amazon Elastic Network Adapters (ENA).**
 
   The driver operates variety of ENA adapters through feature negotiation
@@ -314,6 +320,11 @@ EAL
 Drivers
 ~~~~~~~
 
+* **ethdev: Fixed overflow for 100Gbps.**
+
+  100Gbps in Mbps (100000) was exceeding 16-bit max value of ``link_speed``
+  in ``rte_eth_link``.
+
 * **ethdev: Fixed byte order consistency between fdir flow and mask.**
 
   Fixed issue in ethdev library that the structure for setting
@@ -371,6 +382,12 @@ Drivers
   info for l3fwd to work well. Now there is an option for l3fwd to analysis
   packet type softly, so enable vector driver by default.
 
+* **i40e: Fixed link info of VF.**
+
+  Previously, the VF's link speed kept as 10G and status always was up.
+  It did not change even the physical link's status changed.
+  Now this issue is fixed to make VF's link info consistent with physical link.
+
 * **mlx5: Fixed possible crash during initialization.**
 
   A crash could occur when failing to allocate private device context.
@@ -417,6 +434,15 @@ Libraries
   however a custom compare function (not in the jump table) can only
   be used in single-process mode.
 
+* **lpm: Fixed return value when allocating an existing object.**
+
+  Changed the ``rte_lpm*_create()`` functions to return ``NULL`` and set
+  ``rte_errno`` to ``EEXIST`` when the object name already exists. This is
+  the behavior described in the API documentation in the header file.
+  The previous behavior was to return a pointer to the existing object in
+  that case, preventing the caller to know if the object had to be freed
+  or not.
+
 * **librte_port: Fixed segmentation fault for ring and ethdev writer nodrop.**
 
   Fixed core dump issue on txq and swq when dropless is set to yes.
@@ -472,6 +498,9 @@ This section should contain API changes. Sample format:
 * The ethdev structure ``rte_eth_dev_info`` was changed to support device
   speed capabilities.
 
+* The ethdev structures ``rte_eth_link`` and ``rte_eth_conf`` were changed to
+  support the new link API.
+
 * The functions ``rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_add`` and ``rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_delete``
   have been renamed into ``rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_port_add`` and
   ``rte_eth_dev_udp_tunnel_port_delete``.