[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: announce changes in IPv4 header

[Gregory Etelson]

Announce changes to add 2 unions. The first union will provide
integral and bits access to version and IHL. The second union will
provide integral and bits access to fragment flags and offset.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <getelson at nvidia.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index d9c0e65921..46f8a10dc5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -158,3 +158,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * security: The functions ``rte_security_set_pkt_metadata`` and
   ``rte_security_get_userdata`` will be made inline functions and additional
   flags will be added in structure ``rte_security_ctx`` in DPDK 21.11.
+
+* net: The structure ``rte_ipv4_hdr`` will have two unions.
+  The first union is for existing ``version_ihl`` byte and new bitfield for
+  version and IHL. The second union is for existing ``fragment_offset`` and
+  new bitfield for fragment flags and offset.
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