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> From: Akhil Goyal <gak...@marvell.com>
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> Yang, Qiming <qiming.y...@intel.com>; Akhil Goyal <gak...@marvell.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce support for MACsec in rte_security
>
> 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
Acked-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zh...@intel.com>
