[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/25] doc: announce depreciation of legacy filter types

[Adrien Mazarguil]

They are superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow). Target release is
not defined yet.

Suggested-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 2d17bc6..4819078 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -71,3 +71,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * mempool: The functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated
   and will be removed in 17.02.
   It is replaced by ``rte_mempool_generic_get/put`` functions.
+
+* ethdev: the legacy filter API, including rte_eth_dev_filter_supported(),
+  rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl() as well as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE,
+  FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR, HASH and L2_TUNNEL, is superseded by
+  the generic flow API (rte_flow) in PMDs that implement the latter.
+  Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
+  PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
-- 
2.1.4