[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add cryptodev xform deprecation notice

[Akhil Goyal]

Hi Fan,

On 2/8/2019 4:47 PM, Fan Zhang wrote:
> This patch adds the deprecation notice of changing Cryptodev
> symmetric xform structure for DPDK 19.05.
It would be better if a need of this change is explained in the 
description of the patch and I believe the change will be accepted for 
19.08 release and not 19.05.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang 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 1b4fcb7e6..5166d6eb5 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -75,3 +75,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>   
>   * crypto/aesni_mb: the minimum supported intel-ipsec-mb library version will be
>     changed from 0.49.0 to 0.52.0.
> +
> +* cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms
> +  structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and
> +  ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data`` in
> +  19.05. The structure ``rte_table_action_sym_crypto_params`` in pipeline
> +  library will be updated accordingly.