[ovs-dev] [PATCH v6 5/4] NEWS: Announce the DPDK EAL configuration change

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Fri Jan 22 02:15:37 UTC 2016


Previous commits have converted dpdk EAL initialization from
requiring a ``--dpdk ... --`` command line arguments to using the Open
vSwitch database. This change announces that as significant NEWS.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
---
 NEWS | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4433329..cff38fb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Post-v2.5.0
      * New "monitor2" and "update2" extensions to RFC 7047.
    - OpenFlow:
      * OpenFlow 1.1+ OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REQUEST now supports OFPP_ANY.
+   - DPDK:
+     * The mechanism for configuring DPDK has changed from cli based, to
+       using the database.
+     * Some sensible defaults have been introduced for ease of use.
 
 
 v2.5.0 - xx xxx xxxx
-- 
2.5.0




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