This function is an alias for rte_vdev_init() which is scheduled to move out of the rte_eal library. Lets deprecate this function to be able to remove it from the cryptodev library in 17.11.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[email protected]> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 257dcba32..3c687b1b8 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -64,3 +64,8 @@ Deprecation Notices be removed in 17.11: - ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse`` + +* cryptodev: the following function is deprecated starting from 17.08 and will + be removed in 17.11: + + - ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev`` diff --git a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h index 2048d6e29..39253a8e2 100644 --- a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h +++ b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_cryptodev.h @@ -435,6 +435,8 @@ struct rte_cryptodev_stats { /**< Max length of name of crypto PMD */ /** + * @deprecated + * * Create a virtual crypto device * * @param name Cryptodev PMD name of device to be created. @@ -445,6 +447,7 @@ struct rte_cryptodev_stats { * which will be between 0 and rte_cryptodev_count(). * - In the case of a failure, returns -1. */ +__rte_deprecated extern int rte_cryptodev_create_vdev(const char *name, const char *args); -- 2.13.2
