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[1/2] doc: update deprecation notice of legacy flow actions

Message ID 20221124142659.3350953-2-thomas@monjalon.net (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series update ethdev deprecation notices |

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Thomas Monjalon Nov. 24, 2022, 2:26 p.m. UTC 
  The legacy flow actions, replaced with the more generic modify action,
are not completely replaced yet in DPDK 22.11.
The plan needs to be updated for this release,
and a new plan must be precised during the next release.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index e2efa2f8b0..8e4b1c08ff 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -54,9 +54,6 @@  Deprecation Notices
   us extending existing enum/define.
   One solution can be using a fixed size array instead of ``.*MAX.*`` value.
 
-* ethdev: Announce moving from dedicated modify function for each field,
-  to using the general ``rte_flow_modify_field`` action.
-
 * ethdev: The flow API matching pattern structures, ``struct rte_flow_item_*``,
   should start with relevant protocol header.
   Some matching pattern structures implements this by duplicating protocol header
@@ -87,10 +84,9 @@  Deprecation Notices
   ``DEC_TTL``, ``SET_TTL``, ``SET_MAC_SRC``, ``SET_MAC_DST``, ``INC_TCP_SEQ``,
   ``DEC_TCP_SEQ``, ``INC_TCP_ACK``, ``DEC_TCP_ACK``, ``SET_IPV4_DSCP``,
   ``SET_IPV6_DSCP``, ``SET_TAG``, ``SET_META`` are marked as legacy and
-  superseded by the generic MODIFY_FIELD action.
-  The legacy actions should be deprecated in 22.07, once MODIFY_FIELD
-  alternative is implemented.
-  The legacy actions should be removed in DPDK 22.11.
+  superseded by the generic ``RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MODIFY_FIELD``.
+  The legacy actions should be removed
+  once ``MODIFY_FIELD`` alternative is implemented in drivers.
 
 * cryptodev: The function ``rte_cryptodev_cb_fn`` will be updated
   to have another parameter ``qp_id`` to return the queue pair ID