[PATCH] doc: announce header split deprecation

[Ray Kinsella]

xuan.ding at intel.com writes:

> From: Xuan Ding <xuan.ding at intel.com>
>
> RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT offload was introduced some time ago to
> substitute bit-field header_split in struct rte_eth_rxmode. It allows
> to enable header split offload with the header size controlled using
> split_hdr_size in the same structure.
>
> Right now, no single PMD actually supports RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT
> with above definition. Many examples and test apps initialize the field
> to 0 explicitly. The most of drivers simply ignore split_hdr_size since
> the offload is not advertised, but some double-check that its value is 0.
>
> So the RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT and split_header_size field
> will be removed in DPDK 22.11.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xuan Ding <xuan.ding at intel.com>


Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr at ashroe.eu>