doc: announce removal of legacy ethdev filtering API

Deprecation of rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl() was announced in 2016,
and confirmed last year by avoiding include of rte_eth_ctrl.h.
After 4 years, it is time to complete the removal of the API
which is replaced with rte_flow.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 0055a93..8a59bd4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -127,8 +127,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
   as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR,
   HASH and L2_TUNNEL, is superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow) in
   PMDs that implement the latter.
-  Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
-  PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
+  The legacy API 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.