MACsec support is planned for DPDK 22.11, which would result in ABI breakage in some of the rte_security structures. This patch is to give deprecation notice for the affected structures.
Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <gak...@marvell.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 4e5b23c53d..1c3bf54d72 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ Deprecation Notices pointer for the private data to the application which can be attached to the packet while enqueuing. +* security: MACsec support is planned to be added in DPDK 22.11 which would + result in updates to structures ``rte_security_macsec_xform``, + ``rte_security_macsec_stats`` and security capability structure + ``rte_security_capability`` to accomodate MACsec capabilities. + * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``. -- 2.25.1
