1ABI and API Deprecation 2======================= 3 4See the :doc:`guidelines document for details of the ABI policy </contributing/versioning>`. 5API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. 6 7 8Deprecation Notices 9------------------- 10 11* The EAL function pci_config_space_set is deprecated in release 16.04 12 and will be removed from 16.07. 13 Macros CONFIG_RTE_PCI_CONFIG, CONFIG_RTE_PCI_EXTENDED_TAG and 14 CONFIG_RTE_PCI_MAX_READ_REQUEST_SIZE will be removed. 15 The /sys entries extended_tag and max_read_request_size created by igb_uio 16 will be removed. 17 18* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats: 19 ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss, 20 tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff 21 22* The ethdev structures rte_eth_link, rte_eth_dev_info and rte_eth_conf 23 must be updated to support 100G link and to have a cleaner link speed API. 24 25* ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow in order to support 26 extend flow director's input set. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI 27 changes, but release 2.3 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned. 28 29* ABI changes are planned for rte_eth_ipv4_flow and rte_eth_ipv6_flow to 30 include more fields to be matched against. The release 2.2 does not 31 contain these ABI changes, but release 2.3 will. 32 33* ABI changes are planned for adding four new flow types. This impacts 34 RTE_ETH_FLOW_MAX. The release 2.2 does not contain these ABI changes, 35 but release 2.3 will. 36 37* The scheduler statistics structure will change to allow keeping track of 38 RED actions. 39