RE: [PATCH v4] doc: announce changes in bbdev related to enum extension

[Hemant Agrawal]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Chautru <nicolas.chau...@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 6:05 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org; gak...@marvell.com; tho...@monjalon.net;
> maxime.coque...@redhat.com
> Cc: t...@redhat.com; ray.kinse...@intel.com; bruce.richard...@intel.com;
> Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>;
> david.march...@redhat.com; step...@networkplumber.org; Nicolas
> Chautru <nicolas.chau...@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v4] doc: announce changes in bbdev related to enum
> extension
> Importance: High
> 
> Intent to resolve in DPDK 22.11 historical usage which prevents graceful
> extension of enum and API without troublesome ABI breakage as well as
> extending API RTE_BBDEV_OP_FFT for new operation type in bbdev as well
> as other new members in existing structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Chautru <nicolas.chau...@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 4e5b23c..c8ab1ec 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -112,6 +112,17 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    session and the private data of session. An opaque pointer can be exposed
>    directly to application which can be attached to the ``rte_crypto_op``.
> 
> +* bbdev: ``RTE_BBDEV_OP_TYPE_COUNT`` terminating the
> +``rte_bbdev_op_type``
> +  enum will be deprecated and instead use fixed array size when
> +required to allow for
> +  future enum extension.
> +  Will extend API to support new operation type ``RTE_BBDEV_OP_FFT`` as
> +per this
> +  RFC
> +https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatc
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> +  New members will be added in ``rte_bbdev_driver_info`` to expose PMD
> +queue topology inspired
> +  by this RFC
> +https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatc
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> +  New member will be added in ``rte_bbdev_driver_info`` to expose the
> +device status as per
> +  this RFC
> +https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatc
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> +  This should be updated in DPDK 22.11.
> +
>  * security: Hide structure ``rte_security_session`` and expose an opaque
>    pointer for the private data to the application which can be attached
>    to the packet while enqueuing.
> 
Acked-by:  Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>