cryptodev: remove digest length from crypto op

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
index 9b33da2..93aa971 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
@@ -85,6 +85,27 @@ New Features
 
   Added support for firmwares with multiple Ethernet ports per physical port.
 
+* **Reorganized the symmetric crypto operation structure.**
+
+  The crypto operation (``rte_crypto_sym_op``) has been reorganized as follows:
+
+  * Removed field ``rte_crypto_sym_op_sess_type``.
+  * Replaced pointer and physical address of IV with offset from the start
+    of the crypto operation.
+  * Moved length and offset of cipher IV to ``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``.
+  * Removed Additional Authentication Data (AAD) length.
+  * Removed digest length.
+
+* **Reorganized the crypto operation structure.**
+
+  The crypto operation (``rte_crypto_op``) has been reorganized as follows:
+
+  * Added field ``rte_crypto_op_sess_type``.
+  * Enumerations ``rte_crypto_op_status`` and ``rte_crypto_op_type``
+    have been modified to be uint8_t values.
+  * Removed the field ``opaque_data``.
+  * Pointer to ``rte_crypto_sym_op`` has been replaced with a zero length array.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
 ---------------
@@ -168,6 +189,20 @@ ABI Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* **Reorganized the crypto operation structures.**
+
+  Some fields have been modified in the ``rte_crypto_op`` and ``rte_crypto_sym_op``
+  structures, as described in the `New Features`_ section.
+
+* **Reorganized the ``rte_crypto_sym_cipher_xform`` structure.**
+
+  * Added cipher IV length and offset parameters.
+
+* **Reorganized the ``rte_crypto_sym_auth_xform`` structure.**
+
+  * Added authentication IV length and offset parameters.
+  * Changed field size of AAD length from uint32_t to uint16_t.
+  * Changed field size of digest length from uint32_t to uint16_t.
 
 
 Shared Library Versions
@@ -192,7 +227,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_bitratestats.so.1
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
-     librte_cryptodev.so.2
+   + librte_cryptodev.so.3
      librte_distributor.so.1
      librte_eal.so.4
      librte_ethdev.so.6