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ethdev: announce ethdev name size increase

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VMBUS support will use GUID in eth_dev_data name field which requires
at least 37 characters. Plan for increase in size now.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
changed from 8 bits to 16 bits in order to support more than 256 ports in
DPDK. All APIs which have port_id parameter will be changed at the same time.
* ethdev: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure rte_eth_dev_data.
The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to
64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field.
* librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables
that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype.
The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed