[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for cryptodev and ethdev

[Hemant Agrawal]

On 8/3/2017 9:02 PM, Akhil Goyal wrote:
> Support for security operations is planned to be added
> in ethdev and cryptodev for the 17.11 release.
>
> For this following changes are required.
> - rte_cryptodev and rte_eth_dev structures need to be added
> new parameter rte_security_ops which extend support for
> security ops to the corresponding driver.
> - rte_cryptodev_info and rte_ethd_dev_info need to be added
> with rte_security_capabilities to identify the capabilities of
> the corresponding driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index f6bd910..2393b4c 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -69,3 +69,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    be removed in 17.11:
>
>    - ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev``
> +
> +* cryptodev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
> +  ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and
> +  ``rte_cryptodev`` respectively to support security protocol offloaded
> +  operations.
> +
> +* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
> +  ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and
> +  ``rte_eth_dev`` respectively  to support security operations like
> +  ipsec inline.
>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>