[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce removal of ethdev flow director API

[Ajit Khaparde]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 10:49 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> The flow director config, part of the legacy filtering API,
> was marked as deprecated last year.
> A separate notice is added to make clear that these specific structs
> will be removed as well in DPDK 20.11, as the rest of the legacy
> filtering API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>


> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ea4cfa7a48..24474c563f 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
>    PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
>
> +* ethdev: The flow director API, including ``rte_eth_conf.fdir_conf``
> field,
> +  and the related structures (``rte_fdir_*`` and ``rte_eth_fdir_*``),
> +  will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
> +
>  * ethdev: Update API functions returning ``void`` to return ``int`` with
>    negative errno values to indicate various error conditions (e.g.
>    invalid port ID, unsupported operation, failed operation):
> --
> 2.27.0
>
>