From: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:29:11 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: announce ABI change for pcap in pipeline port
X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~7030
X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7305f083d69e8bd0810f8be53ea12c792a75ad1c;p=dpdk.git

doc: announce ABI change for pcap in pipeline port

Several new fields will be added to structure rte_port_source_params for
source port enhancement with pcap file reading support.

Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com>
Acked-by: Piotr Azarewicz <piotrx.t.azarewicz@intel.com>
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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 98d55293e3..e49d9df505 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -54,3 +54,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
   induce a modification of the rte_mempool structure, plus a
   modification of the API of rte_mempool_obj_iter(), implying a breakage
   of the ABI.
+
+* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_port_source_params in order to
+  support PCAP file reading feature. The release 16.04 contains this ABI
+  change wrapped by RTE_NEXT_ABI macro. Release 16.07 will contain this
+  change, and no backwards compatibility is planned.