[PATCH] doc: announce support for MACsec in rte_security

[Jerin Jacob]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 1:10 PM Zhang, Roy Fan <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 8:08 PM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: thomas at monjalon.net; david.marchand at redhat.com;
> > hemant.agrawal at nxp.com; anoobj at marvell.com;
> > konstantin.v.ananyev at yandex.ru; ferruh.yigit at xilinx.com;
> > andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru; ndabilpuram at marvell.com;
> > vattunuru at marvell.com; matan at nvidia.com; Zhang, Roy Fan
> > <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>; jerinj at marvell.com; jiawenwu at trustnetic.com;
> > Yang, Qiming <qiming.yang at intel.com>; Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce support for MACsec in rte_security
> >
> > MACsec support is planned for DPDK 22.11, which would
> > result in ABI breakage in some of the rte_security structures.
> > This patch is to give deprecation notice for the affected structures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil at marvell.com>
> > ---
> >  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 4e5b23c53d..1c3bf54d72 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >    pointer for the private data to the application which can be attached
> >    to the packet while enqueuing.
> >
> > +* security: MACsec support is planned to be added in DPDK 22.11 which
> > would
> > +  result in updates to structures ``rte_security_macsec_xform``,
> > +  ``rte_security_macsec_stats`` and security capability structure
> > +  ``rte_security_capability`` to accomodate MACsec capabilities.
> > +
> >  * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
> >    in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.
> >
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> Acked-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang at intel.com>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>