The flow director config, part of the legacy filtering API,
was marked as deprecated last year.
A separate notice is added to make clear that these specific structs
will be removed as well in DPDK 20.11, as the rest of the legacy
filtering API.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst 
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index ea4cfa7a48..24474c563f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Deprecation Notices
   Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
   PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
 
+* ethdev: The flow director API, including ``rte_eth_conf.fdir_conf`` field,
+  and the related structures (``rte_fdir_*`` and ``rte_eth_fdir_*``),
+  will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
+
 * ethdev: Update API functions returning ``void`` to return ``int`` with
   negative errno values to indicate various error conditions (e.g.
   invalid port ID, unsupported operation, failed operation):
-- 
2.27.0

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