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

[Mcnamara, John]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Adrien Mazarguil
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 4:25 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/25] doc: announce depreciation of legacy
> filter types
> 
> They are superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow).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 +superseded by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.


All the function names and constants should be fixed width quoted:
``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``.