[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for cryptodev and ethdev

[Akhil Goyal]

Support for security operations is planned to be added
in ethdev and cryptodev for the 17.11 release.

For this following changes are required.
- rte_cryptodev and rte_eth_dev structures need to be added
new parameter rte_security_ops which extend support for
security ops to the corresponding driver.
- rte_cryptodev_info and rte_ethd_dev_info need to be added
with rte_security_capabilities to identify the capabilities of
the corresponding driver.

Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index f6bd910..2393b4c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -69,3 +69,13 @@ Deprecation Notices
   be removed in 17.11:
 
   - ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev``
+
+* cryptodev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
+  ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and
+  ``rte_cryptodev`` respectively to support security protocol offloaded
+  operations.
+
+* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
+  ``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and
+  ``rte_eth_dev`` respectively  to support security operations like
+  ipsec inline.
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