Hi Thomas, I am preparing a v2 of this series where I will be accomodating some more fields to be considered for filtering. However, if the overall approach seems ok to everyone then, should I submit a separate patch for this ABI change announcement ?
Thanks, Rahul. On Thursday, December 12/10/15, 2015 at 19:31:04 +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote: > Current filtering support will be enhanced to accommodate support > for Chelsio T5 hardware filtering support. > > Signed-off-by: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com> > Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras at chelsio.com> > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index 1c7ab01..ca43b16 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -19,3 +19,9 @@ Deprecation Notices > and table action handlers will be updated: > the pipeline parameter will be added, the packets mask parameter will be > either removed (for input port action handler) or made input-only. > + > +* The filtering support will be changed to add a new packet filter > + flow, add a new behavior 'switch', add an ability to add mask > + for fields in each filter rule, and add an ability to pass extra > + arguments for the behavior taken to allow rewriting matched fields > + in filter rule. > -- > 2.5.3 >
