[dpdk-dev,v3,03/25] doc: announce deprecation of legacy filter types
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They are superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow). Target release is
not defined yet.
Suggested-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
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doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
@@ -71,3 +71,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
* mempool: The functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated
and will be removed in 17.02.
It is replaced by ``rte_mempool_generic_get/put`` functions.
+
+* ethdev: the legacy filter API, including
+ ``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well
+ as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR,
+ HASH and L2_TUNNEL, is superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow) in
+ PMDs that implement the latter.
+ Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
+ PMDs have switched to rte_flow.