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>
