doc: announce ABI change for firmware version in ethdev

This patch adds a notice that the ABI change for ethtool app to
get the NIC firmware version in the 17.02 release.

Signed-off-by: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
Acked-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index a1e5221..2d17bc6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   ``nb_seg_max`` and ``nb_mtu_seg_max`` providing information about number of
   segments limit to be transmitted by device for TSO/non-TSO packets.
 
+* In 17.02 ABI change is planned: the ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure
+  will be extended with a new member ``fw_version`` in order to store
+  the NIC firmware version.
+
 * ethdev: an API change is planned for 17.02 for the function
   ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int``
   instead of ``void`` and a fourth parameter ``void *ret_param`` will be added.