doc: announce ABI change for SCTP flow director

To fix the FVL's flow director issue for SCTP flow, rte_eth_fdir_filter
need to be change to support SCTP flow keys extension. Here announce
the ABI deprecation.

Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cunming Liang <cunming.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index a70769d..50d16df 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -47,3 +47,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * ABI changes are planned for struct rte_eth_fdir_flow_ext in order to support
   flow director filtering in VF. The release 2.1 does not contain these ABI
   changes, but release 2.2 will, and no backwards compatibility is planned.
+
+* ABI change is planned to extend the SCTP flow's key input from release 2.1.
+  The change may be enabled in the release 2.1 with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI.