doc: announce old flow director API removal
authorJingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Tue, 11 Aug 2015 02:12:04 +0000 (10:12 +0800)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:39:59 +0000 (12:39 +0200)
APIs for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl
by previous releases. Enic, ixgbe and i40e are switched to support filter_ctrl
APIs, so the old APIs are useless, and ready to be removed now.
This patch announces the ABI change for these APIs removing.

Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jijiang Liu <jijiang.liu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

index b7d4e0e..5e8beed 100644 (file)
@@ -36,3 +36,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats:
   imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
   tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
+
+* API for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl.
+  Following old API is deprecated and will be removed with version 2.2 without
+  backward compatibility.
+  Functions: rte_eth_dev_fdir_*.
+  Structures: rte_fdir_*, rte_eth_fdir.
+  Enums: rte_l4type, rte_iptype.