[EXTERNAL] [PATCH] doc: deprecation of OpenSSL version 1.1.1

[Akhil Goyal]

> OpenSSL 1.1.1 reached end-of-life in September 2023. Future
> releases of DPDK will require minimum of OpenSSL 3.0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emma Finn <emma.finn at intel.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>
Adding more PMD maintainers for acks.

>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ac667e91a6..fca556d07b 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
>  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
>    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
> 
> +* cryptodev: Support for OpenSSL versions earlier than 3.0 is deprecated
> +  and will be removed. OpenSSL 1.1.1 reached end-of-life in September 2023.
> +  The minimum supported OpenSSL version will be 3.0,
> +  and version checks for earlier OpenSSL versions will be removed from the PMD.
> +
>  * eal: The ``-c <coremask>`` commandline parameter is deprecated
>    and will be removed in a future release.
>    Use the ``-l <corelist>`` or ``--lcores=<corelist>`` parameters instead
> --
> 2.43.0