[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add cryptodev gcm iv deprecation notice

[Trahe, Fiona]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kusztal, ArkadiuszX
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 8:41 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: akhil.goyal at nxp.com; Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe at intel.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
> <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>; Kusztal, ArkadiuszX <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: add cryptodev gcm iv deprecation notice
> 
> This patch adds deprecation notice of changing iv behaviour
> when using Galois Counter Mode of operation. Right now IV of
> all supported sizes can be used.
[Fiona] nit - I would say "With this change..." rather than "Right now..."
Apart from this
Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe at intel.com>


> 
> Signed-off-by: Arek Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal at intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ba39c2d..76eb166 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -87,3 +87,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>  * cryptodev: the ``uint8_t *data`` member of ``key`` structure in the xforms
>    structure (``rte_crypto_cipher_xform``, ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``, and
>    ``rte_crypto_aead_xform``) will be changed to ``const uint8_t *data``.
> +
> +* cryptodev: support for using IV with all sizes is added, J0 still can
> +  be used but only when IV length in following structs ``rte_crypto_auth_xform``,
> +  ``rte_crypto_aead_xform`` is set to zero. When IV length is greater or equal
> +  to one it means it represents IV, when is set to zero it means J0 is used
> +  directly, in this case 16 bytes of J0 need to be passed.
> --
> 2.1.0