[PATCH v1] i40e: highlight change to flexible payload for RSS config

-----Original Message-----
From: Mcnamara, John
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 3:24 PM
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Rybalchenko, Kirill <redacted>; Chilikin, Andrey
[off-list ref]; Mcnamara, John [off-list ref]
Subject: [PATCH v1] i40e: highlight change to flexible payload for RSS config

Add deprecation notice to highlight a future change in the
default configuration behavior for flexible payload for RSS.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <redacted>
---
 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 a93c3e1..9e9caa6 100644

--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

@@ -67,3 +67,9 @@ Deprecation Notices

 * librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles.
   Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter.
+
+* i40e: The default flexible payload configuration which extracts the first 16
+  bytes of the payload for RSS will be deprecated starting from 18.02. If
+  required the previous behavior can be configured using existing flow
+  director APIs. There is no ABI/API break. This change will just remove a
+  global configuration setting and require explicit configuration.
--

2.7.5