doc: announce ABI change for cryptodev/ethdev offloads

Support for security operations is planned to be added
in ethdev and cryptodev for the 17.11 release.

For this following changes are required.
- rte_cryptodev and rte_eth_dev structures need to be added
new parameter rte_security_ops which extend support for
security ops to the corresponding driver.
- rte_cryptodev_info and rte_ethd_dev_info need to be added
with rte_security_capabilities to identify the capabilities of
the corresponding driver.

Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Boris Pismenny <borisp@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index dcf2062..5ab4572 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ Deprecation Notices
   The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to
   64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field.
 
+* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
+  ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and
+  ``rte_eth_dev`` respectively  to support security operations like
+  ipsec inline.
+
+* cryptodev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
+  ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and
+  ``rte_cryptodev`` respectively to support security protocol offloaded
+  operations.
+
 * librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables
   that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype.
   The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed