[dpdk-stable] patch 'doc: reduce initial offload API rework scope to drivers' has been queued to stable release 18.02.2

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 18.02.2

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 05/02/18. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From 7659eef1f86732b93d94babecac42ccdd20d5eed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 22:20:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: reduce initial offload API rework scope to drivers

[ upstream commit 315ee8374e0e94fe9ae101da02ff9d91384521f6 ]

Do ethdev new offloading API switch in two steps.

In v18.05 target is implementing the new ethdev-PMD offload interface,
which means converting all PMDs to new offloading API.

Next target is removing the old ethdev offload API.
It will effect applications and will force them to implement new
offloading API.

Fixes: 3004d3454192 ("doc: update deprecation of ethdev offload API")

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
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 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 9b5576152..e9fcb69ca 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -97,8 +97,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * ethdev: a new Tx and Rx offload API was introduced on 17.11.
   In the new API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads.
   Offloads are disabled by default and enabled per application request.
-  The old offloads API is target to be deprecated on 18.05. This includes:
 
+  The old ethdev - drivers offload interface will be deprecated on 18.05.
+  This includes:
+  - removal of the conversion in ethdev from new offloading API to old API for drivers.
+
+  In later releases the old offloading API will be deprecated, which will include:
   - removal of ``ETH_TXQ_FLAGS_NO*`` flags.
   - removal of ``txq_flags`` field from ``rte_eth_txconf`` struct.
   - removal of the offloads bit-field from ``rte_eth_rxmode`` struct.
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