Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for crypto info struct

[Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>]

On 1/26/2018 2:33 PM, Pablo de Lara wrote:
> Since the API changes made in 17.08, the session mempool
> is not created anymore in each crypto device.
> Therefore, there is no need to have, in the cryptodev info
> structure, the maximum number of sessions supported per device
> and per queue pair.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.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 d59ad5988..5588ba7c1 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -59,3 +59,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
>     be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the
>     structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on
>     platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms.
> +
> +* cryptodev: The structure ``sym``, including its fields ``max_nb_sessions``
> +  and ``max_nb_sessions_per_qp``, in structure ``rte_cryptodev_info``,
> +  will be removed in 18.05, as these fields are not relevant anymore
> +  since the session mempool is not internal in the crypto device anymore.
> 
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>