Re: [V1] doc: announce deprecation of flow item VXLAN-GPE

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>]

On 7/26/2024 9:51 AM, Gavin Li wrote:
> Adding the deprecation notice as reminder for removing
> RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VXLAN_GPE and its related structures,
> eg. rte_vxlan_gpe_hdr, rte_flow_item_vxlan_gpe, etc.
> 
> The proposed time of the removal is DPDK release 25.11.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Li <gavinl@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 6948641ff6..5c04f88557 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -115,6 +115,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    The legacy actions should be removed
>    once ``MODIFY_FIELD`` alternative is implemented in drivers.
>  
> + * ethdev,net: The flow item ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VXLAN_GPE`` is replaced with ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VXLAN``.
> +   The struct ``rte_flow_item_vxlan_gpe``, its mask ``rte_flow_item_vxlan_gpe_mask`` are replaced with
> +   ``rte_flow_item_vxlan and its mask`` and its mask ``rte_flow_item_vxlan_mask``.
> +   The item ``RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VXLAN_GPE``, the struct ``rte_flow_item_vxlan_gpe``, its mask ``rte_flow_item_vxlan_gpe_mask``,
> +   and the header struct ``rte_vxlan_gpe_hdr`` with the macro ``RTE_ETHER_VXLAN_GPE_HLEN``
> +   will be removed in DPDK 25.11.
> +
>  * cryptodev: The function ``rte_cryptodev_cb_fn`` will be updated
>    to have another parameter ``qp_id`` to return the queue pair ID
>    which got error interrupt to the application,
>

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>