[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ethdev CRC strip flag deprecation

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue Mar 20 12:26:31 CET 2018


Make CRC stripping default behavior, deprecate flag
DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP.

Introduce a new flag to let applications request keep CRC.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index b40c57f28..6e1266b20 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -147,6 +147,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   successful. This modification will only impact the PMDs, not the
   applications.
 
+* ethdev: Make CRC stript default behavior without any flag required and add a
+  new offload flag to let application request for keeping CRC if PMD reports
+  capability for it.
+  ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_CRC_STRIP`` flag will be removed.
+  ``DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEETP_CRC`` will be added.
+
 * i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
   bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
   required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
-- 
2.13.6



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