doc: announce IPsec SA config option struct changes

Message ID 20210705131335.21070-1-ktejasree@marvell.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: akhil goyal
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Series doc: announce IPsec SA config option struct changes |

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Commit Message

Tejasree Kondoj July 5, 2021, 1:13 p.m. UTC
  Proposing following new field for IPsec tunnel header verification
in the structure ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options``.
enum rte_security_ipsec_tunnel_verify_mode tunnel_hdr_verify;

It is used to indicate whether outer header verification
need to be done as part of inbound IPsec processing.

https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/213484.html

Signed-off-by: Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree@marvell.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Akhil Goyal July 31, 2021, 5:53 p.m. UTC | #1
> Proposing following new field for IPsec tunnel header verification
> in the structure ``rte_security_ipsec_sa_options``.
> enum rte_security_ipsec_tunnel_verify_mode tunnel_hdr_verify;
> 
> It is used to indicate whether outer header verification
> need to be done as part of inbound IPsec processing.
> 
> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/213484.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree@marvell.com>
> ---
Marking this patch as Not applicable,
As a new patch is submitted for consolidating all notices for same structure.
https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/215906.html
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 9584d6bfd7..331b9d424a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@  Deprecation Notices
   in "rte_sched.h". These changes are aligned to improvements suggested in the
   RFC https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-November/120035.html.
 
+* security: The IPsec SA config options structure ``struct rte_security_ipsec_sa_options``
+  will be updated with a new field to support IPsec tunnel header verification.
+
 * metrics: The function ``rte_metrics_init`` will have a non-void return
   in order to notify errors instead of calling ``rte_exit``.