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

[Akhil Goyal]

Hi Pablo/Declan,

On 8/4/2017 8:55 PM, De Lara Guarch, Pablo wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Akhil Goyal [mailto:akhil.goyal at nxp.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 4:32 PM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org; Doherty, Declan <declan.doherty at intel.com>;
>> thomas at monjalon.net; Nicolau, Radu <radu.nicolau at intel.com>;
>> aviadye at mellanox.com; borisp at mellanox.com;
>> hemant.agrawal at nxp.com; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
>> <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
>> Cc: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at nxp.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for cryptodev and ethdev
>>
>> 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>
> 
> Not sure if this needed to be split into two patches, as this affects two libraries.
> At least, from cryptodev side:
> 
> Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
> 

We would be needing one more ABI change, Can I send it now. I discovered 
it after I sent this patch.

In the struct rte_crypto_sym_op, we would need to add a pointer to a 
security session in the union of session and xform.

Also, Do I need to split this patch into two for crypto and eth?

Regards,
Akhil