From: Rahul Lakkireddy Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:10:53 +0000 (+0530) Subject: doc: announce ABI change for extending filtering X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~7711 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=954f1545a1abcee6d914ca858c8f0b4c15ae35bf;p=dpdk.git doc: announce ABI change for extending filtering Current filtering support will be enhanced to accommodate support for Chelsio T5 hardware filtering support. Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index f8a41dda8e..364b02ead1 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ Deprecation Notices extend flow director's input set. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes, but release 2.3 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned. +* ABI changes are planned for rte_eth_ipv4_flow and rte_eth_ipv6_flow to + include more fields to be matched against. The release 2.2 does not + contain these ABI changes, but release 2.3 will. + +* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts + RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes, + but release 2.3 will. + * ABI changes are planned for rte_eth_tunnel_filter_conf. Change the fields of outer_mac and inner_mac from pointer to struct in order to keep the code's readability. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes, but