X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Fdeprecation.rst;h=e2721fad69e8e9cf3caa2b072a6bca6877be7bd0;hb=092a9de50b25c2b66eb79be83bee21c2db2f08e5;hp=b723cd53f483edb165bdc67a4ac886c600c4f50f;hpb=1e88a5c385b0327ddd1c4eceb1f7aaabc4f2c0b3;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index b723cd53f4..e2721fad69 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -62,15 +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, @@ -89,5 +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.