This patch adds a notice that the ABI change for ethtool app to get the NIC firmware version in the 17.02 release.
Signed-off-by: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang at intel.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 845d2aa..60bd7ed 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -62,3 +62,7 @@ Deprecation Notices * API will change for ``rte_port_source_params`` and ``rte_port_sink_params`` structures. The member ``file_name`` data type will be changed from ``char *`` to ``const char *``. This change targets release 16.11. + +* In 17.02 ABI change is planned: the ``rte_eth_dev_info`` structure + will be extended with a new member ``fw_version`` in order to store + the NIC firmware version. -- 2.7.4
