Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for cryptodev and ethdev

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

04/08/2017 07:26, Hemant Agrawal:
> On 8/3/2017 9:02 PM, Akhil Goyal wrote:
> > Support for security operations is planned to be added
> > in ethdev and cryptodev for the 17.11 release.
> >
> > For this following changes are required.
> > - rte_cryptodev and rte_eth_dev structures need to be added
> > new parameter rte_security_ops which extend support for
> > security ops to the corresponding driver.
> > - rte_cryptodev_info and rte_ethd_dev_info need to be added
> > with rte_security_capabilities to identify the capabilities of
> > the corresponding driver.

It is not explained what is the fundamental difference between
rte_security and rte_crypto?
It looks to be just a technical workaround.

Why the ABI would be changed by rte_security additions?

> > Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>
> >
> Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>

No more opinions outside of NXP?
It seems there is not yet a consensus on how to manage IPsec offloading.
I heard there were some phone calls about these stuff but nothing clear
appears publicly on the mailing list.
Looks to be a community failure.