Re: [PATCH] doc: announce support for MACsec in rte_security

[Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@oss.nxp.com>]

On 6/29/2022 12:38 AM, Akhil Goyal wrote:
> 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 <gakhil@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``.
>   
Acked-by:  Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>