To help administrative tasks on ports, new per-port information need to be added into the data structure rte_eth_dev_info supplied by the dev_infos_get() function exported by a Poll Mode Driver.
See http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-September/074885.html for details. Signed-off-by: Ivan Boule <ivan.bo...@6wind.com> Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 52058f5..1430120 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -92,3 +92,11 @@ 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. + +* librte_ether: additional fields will be added into the ``rte_eth_dev_info`` + structure in 18.02, breaking the API. These fields will contain: + + - the set of supported link modes, + - the set of advertised link modes, + - the type of port connector, + - autonegotiation enabled or not. -- 2.1.4
