[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: fix aesni mb documentation.

Fan Zhang roy.fan.zhang at intel.com
Wed Jan 9 13:11:12 CET 2019


This patch fixes the incorrect intel multi buffer library support
version and missed limitation of GCM algorithm support.

Fixes: 0e9f8507afcb ("crypto/aesni_mb: support AES-GCM algorithm")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>
---
v2:
-fixed a typo

 doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst
index 63e060d75..d9fd41ae5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_mb.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-    Copyright(c) 2015-2017 Intel Corporation.
+    Copyright(c) 2015-2018 Intel Corporation.
 
 AESN-NI Multi Buffer Crypto Poll Mode Driver
 ============================================
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ Limitations
 
 * Chained mbufs are not supported.
 * Only in-place is currently supported (destination address is the same as source address).
+* RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_AES_GCM only works properly when the multi-buffer library is
+  0.51.0 or newer.
 
 
 Installation
@@ -59,8 +61,8 @@ Installation
 To build DPDK with the AESNI_MB_PMD the user is required to download the multi-buffer
 library from `here <https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb>`_
 and compile it on their user system before building DPDK.
-The latest version of the library supported by this PMD is v0.50, which
-can be downloaded from `<https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb/archive/v0.50.zip>`_.
+The latest version of the library supported by this PMD is v0.51, which
+can be downloaded from `<https://github.com/01org/intel-ipsec-mb/archive/v0.51.zip>`.
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-- 
2.13.6



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