Friday, August 4, 2017 9:56 AM, Remy Horton: > On 04/08/2017 06:27, Zhiyong Yang wrote: > > This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 on redefinition of > > port_id. port_id is defined as uint8_t by now, which is just ranged > > from 0 to 255. For more and more scenerioes, more than 256 ports are > > needed to support for vdev scalability. > > > > It is necessary for redefinition of port_id to extend from 1 bytes to > > 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and use cases related to port_id will be > > changed at the same time. > > I think this reads a little better: > > This is an API/ABI change notice for DPDK 17.11 announcing the redefinition > of port_id. port_id is currently defined as uint8_t, which is limited to the > range 0 to 255. A larger range is required for vdev scalability. > > It is necessary for a redefinition of port_id to extend it from 1 bytes to 2 > bytes. All ethdev APIs and usages related to port_id will be changed at the > same time. > > > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.hor...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>
