On 14/02/2018 12:32 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
This is following the RFC being discussed and targets 18.05
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/085716.html
Cc: declan.dohe...@intel.com
Cc: mohammad.abdul.a...@intel.com
Cc: ferruh.yi...@intel.com
Cc: remy.hor...@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index d59ad5988..f6151de63 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the
structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on
platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms.
+
+* ethdev: A work is being planned for 18.05 to expose VF port representors
+ as a mean to perform control and data path operation on the different VFs.
+ As VF representor is an ethdev port, new fields are needed in order to map
+ between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields
+ are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct.
Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.dohe...@intel.com>
