APIs for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl by previous releases.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 <jingjing.wu at intel.com> --- 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fdirmatch, fdirmiss, tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff + +* APIs for flow director filters has been replaced by rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl.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