VMBUS support will use GUID in eth_dev_data name field which requires at least 37 characters. Plan for increase in size now.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> --- 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 2e708dbe0deb..d5b70c50064a 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -95,3 +95,7 @@ Deprecation Notices The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed (including the ``signature_offset`` parameter) and the "do-sig" versions renamed accordingly. + +* ethdev: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure eth_dev_data. + The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to + 64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field. -- 2.11.0
