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

["Zhang, Roy Fan" <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 8:08 PM
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> Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce support for MACsec in rte_security
> 
> 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``.
> 
> --
> 2.25.1
Acked-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>