From: Jingjing Wu Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 02:12:04 +0000 (+0800) Subject: doc: announce old flow director API removal X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~8525 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ffe9e9b65b9e29ee3355af9b0a8d0b934c772b3c;p=dpdk.git doc: announce old flow director API removal APIs for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl by previous releases.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 Acked-by: Helin Zhang Acked-by: Jijiang Liu Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index b7d4e0e5e3..5e8beed7fb 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -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fdirmatch, fdirmiss, tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff + +* API for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl.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.