doc: announce deprecation in crypto feature flags

Some feature flags, such as RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER
are ambiguous. In this case, it is not clear if Scatter Gather lists
are supported in the input buffer and/or output buffer.

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Deepak Kumar Jain <deepak.k.jain@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 6616881..2819b48 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -88,3 +88,5 @@ Deprecation Notices
     ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_stop()`` will be deprecated from 18.05
     and removed in 18.08, as there are no drivers doing anything useful
     with them.
+  - Some feature flags such as ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER`` are ambiguous,
+    so some will be replaced by more explicit flags.