Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce removal of L2 tunnel filtering API

[Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 11:06 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> The functions for L2 tunnel were missed when marking the legacy
> filtering API as deprecated. That's why a separate notice is done
> to make clear that it will be removed as well in DPDK 20.11.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>


> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ea4cfa7a48..cad2f777f2 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
>    PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
>
> +* ethdev: the legacy L2 tunnel filtering API is deprecated as the rest of
> +  the legacy filtering API.
> +  The functions ``rte_eth_dev_l2_tunnel_eth_type_conf`` and
> +  ``rte_eth_dev_l2_tunnel_offload_set`` which were not marked as
> deprecated,
> +  will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
> +
>  * ethdev: Update API functions returning ``void`` to return ``int`` with
>    negative errno values to indicate various error conditions (e.g.
>    invalid port ID, unsupported operation, failed operation):
> --
> 2.27.0
>
>