On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 9:03 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > A new API is planned to be introduced for sampling and mirroring > with rte_flow. It should be more generic and allow more use cases. > > This deprecation is to show the direction, avoiding overlapping APIs. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> > --- > 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 6e12e57a13..ca0d8af96a 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ Deprecation Notices > Existing ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_status`` and > ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status`` > APIs can be used as replacement. > > +* ethdev: The port mirroring API can be replaced with a more fine grain flow > API. > + The structs ``rte_eth_mirror_conf``, ``rte_eth_vlan_mirror`` and the > functions > + ``rte_eth_mirror_rule_set``, ``rte_eth_mirror_rule_reset`` will be marked > + as deprecated in DPDK 20.11, along with the associated macros > ``ETH_MIRROR_*``. > + This API will be fully removed in DPDK 21.11. > + > * ethdev: Some internal APIs for driver usage are exported in the .map file. > Now DPDK has ``__rte_internal`` marker so we can mark internal APIs and > move > them to the INTERNAL block in .map. Although these APIs are internal it > will > -- > 2.27.0 >
