doc: announce API changes for Windows compatibility

Windows headers define `s_addr`, `min`, and `max` as macros.
If DPDK headers are included after Windows ones, DPDK structure
definitions containing fields with these names get broken (example 1),
as well as any usage of such fields (example 2). If DPDK headers
undefined these macros, it could break consumer code (example 3).
It is proposed to rename structure fields in DPDK, because Win32 headers
are used more widely than DPDK, as a general-purpose platform compared
to domain-specific kit, and are harder to fix because of that.
Exact new names are left for further discussion.

Example 1:

    /* in DPDK public header included after windows.h */
    struct rte_type {
        int min;    /* ERROR: `min` is a macro */
    };

Example 2:

    #include <rte_ether.h>
    #include <winsock2.h>
    struct rte_ether_hdr eh;
    eh.s_addr.addr_bytes[0] = 0;    /* ERROR: `addr_s` is a macro */

Example 3:

    #include <winsock2.h>
    #include <rte_ether.h>
    struct in_addr addr;
    addr.s_addr = 0;      /* ERROR: there is no `s_addr` field,
                             and `s_addr` macro is undefined by DPDK. */

Commit 6c068dbd9fea ("net: work around s_addr macro on Windows")
modified definition of `struct rte_ether_hdr` to avoid the issue.
However, the workaround assumes `#define s_addr S_addr.S_un`
in Windows headers, which is not a part of official API.
It also complicates the definition of `struct rte_ether_hdr`.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Khoa To <khot@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index b660562..7105821 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -139,6 +139,15 @@ Deprecation Notices
   can still be used if users specify the devarg "driver=i40evf". I40evf will
   be deleted in DPDK 21.11.
 
+* net: ``s_addr`` and ``d_addr`` fields of ``rte_ether_hdr`` structure
+  will be renamed in DPDK 21.11 to avoid conflict with Windows Sockets headers.
+
+* compressdev: ``min`` and ``max`` fields of ``rte_param_log2_range`` structure
+  will be renamed in DPDK 21.11 to avoid conflict with Windows Sockets headers.
+
+* cryptodev: ``min`` and ``max`` fields of ``rte_crypto_param_range`` structure
+  will be renamed in DPDK 21.11 to avoid conflict with Windows Sockets headers.
+
 * cryptodev: The field ``dataunit_len`` of the ``struct rte_crypto_cipher_xform``
   has a limited size ``uint16_t``.
   It will be moved and extended as ``uint32_t`` in DPDK 21.11.