Hi Neil Please review it and ack it, if no objections! Thank you very much in advance!
- Helin > -----Original Message----- > From: Zhang, Helin > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 10:45 AM > To: dev at dpdk.org > Cc: Liu, Jijiang; Wu, Jingjing; nhorman at tuxdriver.com; Zhang, Helin > Subject: [PATCH v3] doc: announce ABI changes planned for unified packet type > > The significant ABI changes of all shared libraries are planned to support > unified > packet type which will be taken effect from release 2.2. Here announces that > ABI > changes in detail. > > Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang at intel.com> > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > v2 changes: > * Added 'struct rte_kni_mbuf' to the ABI change announcement. > > v3 changes: > * Re-worded the ABI change announcement, as the ABI changes will be > taken effect from release 2.1 for static libraries, and from > release 2.2 for shared libraries. > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst index > 110c486..9f8a9b3 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst > @@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices > > Deprecation Notices > ------------------- > +* Significant ABI changes are planned for struct rte_mbuf, struct > rte_kni_mbuf, > and several PKT_RX_ flags will be removed, to support unified packet type from > release 2.1. The upcoming release 2.1 will have those changes for static > libraries > only, while have no change for shared libraries by default. Those changes > will be > taken effect for shared libraries from release 2.2. There is no backward > compatibility planned from release 2.2. All binaries will need to be rebuilt > from > release 2.2. > -- > 1.9.3
