From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Akhil Goyal Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for cryptodev and ethdev Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 21:02:11 +0530 Message-ID: <20170803153211.23073-1-akhil.goyal@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Akhil Goyal To: , , , , , , , Return-path: Received: from NAM03-BY2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2nam03on0084.outbound.protection.outlook.com [104.47.42.84]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55CC325F for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 17:34:08 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Support for security operations is planned to be added in ethdev and cryptodev for the 17.11 release. For this following changes are required. - rte_cryptodev and rte_eth_dev structures need to be added new parameter rte_security_ops which extend support for security ops to the corresponding driver. - rte_cryptodev_info and rte_ethd_dev_info need to be added with rte_security_capabilities to identify the capabilities of the corresponding driver. Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index f6bd910..2393b4c 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -69,3 +69,13 @@ Deprecation Notices be removed in 17.11: - ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev`` + +* cryptodev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and + ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and + ``rte_cryptodev`` respectively to support security protocol offloaded + operations. + +* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and + ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and + ``rte_eth_dev`` respectively to support security operations like + ipsec inline. -- 2.9.3