doc: announce cryptodev xform API change

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

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
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@@ -70,5 +70,20 @@ Deprecation Notices
   to consolidate color definition, which is currently replicated in many places,
   such as: rte_meter.h, rte_mtr.h, rte_tm.h.
 
-* crypto/aesni_mb: the minimum supported intel-ipsec-mb library version will be
-  changed from 0.49.0 to 0.52.0.
+* 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,
+
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_ASYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SECURITY``
+
+  Disabling unused features would facilitate efficient usage of HW/SW offload.
+
+  - Member ``uint64_t ff_disable`` in ``rte_cryptodev_config``
+
+  The field would be added in v19.08.
+
+* cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms
+  structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and
+  ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data``.