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

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Mar 20 12:35:27 CET 2018


20/03/2018 12:26, Ferruh Yigit:
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +* ethdev: Make CRC stript default behavior without any flag required and add a

s/stript/stripping/

> +  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.

s/KEETP/KEEP/

I think we should introduce the new flag without removing the old one
for one release.
Setting both flags would be an error.
Setting no flag would mean stripping.
So the CRC_STRIP flag would be just ignored by PMDs.

Opinions?






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