This patch adds the deprecation notice of changing Cryptodev symmetric xform structure. The proposed change is to making key pointers in the crypto xforms (cipher, auth, aead) to indicate neither the library or the drivers will not change the content of the key buffer.
Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zh...@intel.com> --- v2: - updated description to the patch. doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 1b4fcb7e6..5166d6eb5 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -75,3 +75,9 @@ Deprecation Notices * crypto/aesni_mb: the minimum supported intel-ipsec-mb library version will be changed from 0.49.0 to 0.52.0. + +* cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms + structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and + ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data`` in + 19.05. The structure ``rte_table_action_sym_crypto_params`` in pipeline + library will be updated accordingly. -- 2.14.5
