APIs for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl
by previous releases. Enic, ixgbe and i40e are switched to support filter_ctrl
APIs, so the old APIs are useless, and ready to be removed now.
This patch announces the ABI change for these APIs removing.
Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 36
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 5330d3b..b1be38f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -35,3 +35,39 @@ Deprecation Notices
* The following fields have been deprecated in rte_eth_stats:
imissed, ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss,
tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff
+
+* APIs for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl.
+ Following old APIs, and data structures are deprecated and will be removed
+ with version 2.2. There is no backward compatibility planned from release
2.2.
+ APIs:
+rte_eth_dev_fdir_add_signature_filter
+rte_eth_dev_fdir_update_signature_filter
+rte_eth_dev_fdir_remove_signature_filter
+rte_eth_dev_fdir_get_infos
+rte_eth_dev_fdir_add_perfect_filter
+rte_eth_dev_fdir_update_perfect_filter
+rte_eth_dev_fdir_remove_perfect_filter
+rte_eth_dev_fdir_set_masks
+ Data structures:
+struct rte_fdir_filter
+struct rte_fdir_masks
+struct rte_eth_fdir
+fields in struct eth_dev_ops
+ fdir_add_signature_filter
+ fdir_update_signature_filter
+ fdir_remove_signature_filter
+ fdir_infos_get
+ fdir_add_perfect_filter
+ fdir_update_perfect_filter
+ fdir_remove_perfect_filter
+ fdir_set_masks
+enum rte_l4type
+enum rte_iptype
+fdir_add_signature_filter_t
+fdir_update_signature_filter_t
+fdir_remove_signature_filter_t
+fdir_infos_get_t
+fdir_add_perfect_filter_t
+fdir_update_perfect_filter_t
+fdir_remove_perfect_filter_t
+fdir_set_masks_t
--
2.4.0
