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

[Jerin Jacob]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 11:28 PM Ajit Khaparde
<ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com> wrote:
>
> 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>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.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
> >
> >