kni: remove ethtool support

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / deprecation.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index e612784..e2721fa 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * eal: The function ``rte_eal_remote_launch`` will return new error codes
   after read or write error on the pipe, instead of calling ``rte_panic``.
 
+* eal: the ``rte_mem_config`` struct will be made private to remove it from the
+  externally visible ABI and allow it to be updated in the future.
+
 * eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.11.
   New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
   device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the
@@ -59,15 +62,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
   Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
   PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
 
-* kni: remove KNI ethtool support. To clarify, this is not to remove the KNI,
-  but only to remove ethtool support of it that is disabled by default and
-  can be enabled via ``CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD_ETHTOOL`` config option.
-  Existing KNI ethtool implementation is only supported by ``igb`` & ``ixgbe``
-  drivers, by using a copy of kernel drivers in DPDK. This model cannot be
-  extended to all drivers in DPDK and it is too much effort to maintain
-  kernel modules in DPDK. As a result users won't be able to use ``ethtool``
-  via ``igb`` & ``ixgbe`` anymore.
-
 * cryptodev: New member in ``rte_cryptodev_config`` to allow applications to
   disable features supported by the crypto device. Only the following features
   would be allowed to be disabled this way,
@@ -86,5 +80,22 @@ Deprecation Notices
   structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and
   ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data``.
 
+* cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can
+  be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``,
+  ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal
+  to one it means it represents IV, when is set to zero it means J0 is used
+  directly, in this case 16 bytes of J0 need to be passed.
+
+* sched: To allow more traffic classes, flexible mapping of pipe queues to
+  traffic classes, and subport level configuration of pipes and queues
+  changes will be made to macros, data structures and API functions defined
+  in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the
+  RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html.
+
 * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
   in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.
+
+* power: ``rte_power_set_env`` function will no longer return 0 on attempt
+  to set new power environment if power environment was already initialized.
+  In this case the function will return -1 unless the environment is unset first
+  (using ``rte_power_unset_env``). Other function usage scenarios will not change.