doc: announce removal of ethdev flow director API

The flow director config, part of the legacy filtering API,
was marked as deprecated last year.
A separate notice is added to make clear that these specific structs
will be removed as well in DPDK 20.11, as the rest of the legacy
filtering API.

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

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 8a59bd4..b8e302a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   PMDs that implement the latter.
   The legacy API will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
 
+* ethdev: The flow director API, including ``rte_eth_conf.fdir_conf`` field,
+  and the related structures (``rte_fdir_*`` and ``rte_eth_fdir_*``),
+  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.
   invalid port ID, unsupported operation, failed operation):