16/10/2017 16:27, Ivan Boule: > 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> > --- > +* 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.
This patch is not accepted in 17.11 for following reasons: - it requires at least 3 acks - we are not going to break API in 18.02, except maybe for EAL devargs - the link mode is redundant with the speed capabilities - such fields require work (and time) for every PMD to be fully supported - we should discuss more generally which infos are in the scope of this function Sorry for the short notice, I was waiting for comments and to see if other deprecations were sent (or not) for ethdev.
