ethdev: add return value to stats get dev op

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index 4f5576d..63b9869 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ New Features
   "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details on this new
   driver.
 
+* **Added SoftNIC PMD.**
+
+  Added new SoftNIC PMD. This virtual device offers applications a software
+  fallback support for traffic management.
+
 * **nfp: Added PF support.**
 
   Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is
@@ -221,6 +226,12 @@ API Changes
 * ``rte_mem_phy2mch`` was used in Xen dom0 to obtain the physical address;
   remove this API as Xen dom0 support was removed.
 
+* **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
+
+  The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
+  By this way PMDs can return an error value in case of failure at stats
+  getting process time.
+
 
 ABI Changes
 -----------
@@ -288,6 +299,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_pmd_i40e.so.2
      librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
      librte_pmd_ring.so.2
+   + librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
      librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
      librte_port.so.3
      librte_power.so.1