From patchwork Mon Aug 3 17:49:09 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Thomas Monjalon X-Patchwork-Id: 75151 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C74A0543; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 19:49:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009CF2952; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 19:49:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from new2-smtp.messagingengine.com (new2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.224]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38A2F64 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 19:49:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailnew.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C62A580188; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 13:49:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 03 Aug 2020 13:49:19 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; s=fm1; bh=CyfVP/faSAs28fhMVpTQi0kvfB Gtj4ZgrsEFeVPtGA0=; b=E0P25VjC1a+hEAfdQdknZUfVQHfsgR+GuFdp8z31S0 rO2/oF3gW/hkqzd/RD1thrPa1UClW0ZM5EO0lrAzj77Ew2r2vk0Y8/7ucfrhA0yo gnKfY/kjveqcH+Ddy8Ct4Qdjqxd+iAb6xBqQE4AKsOQl6ZFqFqE4qGrJ/UCdEEfL SnQ2Z5MICgnUT0TLKpHrQcsN2RmXf59e7C+F+PE89L20/QvnKaCJbOm2L4mJfGeF SQXQOibPem4NA39464Am8BiXHfOxsfTX53OJgkTNqN+bH4ExGbKOZH2agAp5Gs2A XxyT94PIE3DnRxxyu0XKugn+D4sDTCbsjj//98/UoDrw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:date:from :message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy :x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=CyfVP/faSAs28fhMV pTQi0kvfBGtj4ZgrsEFeVPtGA0=; b=Q+2H+eIEqAkCYngmkZfgMA0kqkMWxcDou pgSDkzegGraRIuRlLnutXxvU5df81j1LEh9RtsOn+7SWtdWnIguCnAeSpOTFcZVC 1IsT3Nu8ZDG5dUMzSkMSoPcCtcn51oSv/vRNeF/GnDJ7R08LzGdl43rR6kOY9qdi UOemMmxHD8rBeJzTZNN/kMMsSgHI8CmXz82nwajEyjeEgFk6ZaGMyDklFPZ/n/D8 yPOHiUJMPkeeUQqc8kyu5Z1IxeEA5eb5grBRiQm9G6zJ+/3T3CyXo8zx3CkN9khM ivKOD5R//7sDbtX5Lbd+cVmEJMTfs6YifOUGeFIJk9YMKCrmZNKyA== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduiedrjeeggdduudejucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucenucfjughrpefhvffufffkofgggfestdekredtre dttdenucfhrhhomhepvfhhohhmrghsucfoohhnjhgrlhhonhcuoehthhhomhgrshesmhho nhhjrghlohhnrdhnvghtqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpedvledvudehvdduudevuedvve ehgeduleegiefgjeehudehtddtgeduffejiefhgfenucfkphepjeejrddufeegrddvtdef rddukeegnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehmrghilhhfrhhomh epthhhohhmrghssehmohhnjhgrlhhonhdrnhgvth X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.monjalon.net (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C9CF730600A6; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 13:49:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, shahafs@mellanox.com, david.marchand@redhat.com, jerinj@marvell.com, arybchenko@solarflare.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com, johndale@cisco.com, xavier.huwei@huawei.com, xuanziyang2@huawei.com, wei.zhao1@intel.com, rmody@marvell.com Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 19:49:09 +0200 Message-Id: <20200803174909.3290046-1-thomas@monjalon.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.27.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce removal of ethdev flow director API X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 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 Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde Acked-by: Jerin Jacob Acked-by: David Marchand Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal --- 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):