From: Ziye <ziye.y...@intel.com> The purpose of this patch is used to add a new field "class" in rte_pci_id structure. The new class field includes class_id, subcalss_id, programming interface of a pci device. With this field, we can identify pci device by its class info, which can be more flexible instead of probing the device by vendor_id OR device_id OR subvendor_id OR subdevice_id. For example, we can probe all nvme devices by class field, which can be quite convenient.
As release_2_3.rst is replaced with release_16_04.rst. Signed-off-by: Ziye Yang <ziye.yang at intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst index 27fc624..fe843a5 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst @@ -95,9 +95,10 @@ This section should contain API changes. Sample format: ABI Changes ----------- -* Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the ABI change that was announced in - the previous releases and made in this release. Use fixed width quotes for - ``rte_function_names`` or ``rte_struct_names``. Use the past tense. +* New field ``class`` is added into ``rte_pci_id`` structure. This new + added ``class`` field can be used to probe pci devices by class related + info. With this new field, the size of structure ``rte_pci_device`` will + be increased. Shared Library Versions -- 1.9.3
