Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] doc: add cryptodev xform deprecation notice

[Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>]

On 3/22/2019 10:04 PM, Fan Zhang wrote:
> 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.zhang@intel.com>
> ---
> v3:
> - Removed target release.
>
> v2:
> - Added description.
>
>   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 1b4fcb7e6..f35ac5b96 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -75,3 +75,7 @@ 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``.
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>