From: Shijith Thotton Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 18:14:20 +0000 (+0530) Subject: doc: announce change in crypto adapter metadata X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d65409a9a0715562fca86e1c303be6f884e320e8;p=dpdk.git doc: announce change in crypto adapter metadata In crypto adapter metadata, first 8 bytes of request info is a space holder for response info. For better clarity, reserved field should be removed from request info. New space for response info can be made by changing type of event crypto metadata to structure from union. Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton Acked-by: Akhil Goyal Acked-by: Ray Kinsella Acked-by: Jerin Jacob --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 800d81cbff..4e8ce42e7c 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ Deprecation Notices values to the function ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_queue_add`` using the structure ``rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_queue_add``. +* eventdev: Reserved bytes of ``rte_event_crypto_request`` is a space holder + for ``response_info``. Both should be decoupled for better clarity. + New space for ``response_info`` can be made by changing + ``rte_event_crypto_metadata`` type to structure from union. + This change is targeted for DPDK 21.11. + * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.