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doc: announce deprecation of port mirroring API

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A new API is planned to be introduced for sampling and mirroring
with rte_flow. It should be more generic and allow more use cases.

This deprecation is to show the direction, avoiding overlapping APIs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
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@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
Existing ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_status`` and ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status``
APIs can be used as replacement.
* ethdev: The port mirroring API can be replaced with a more fine grain flow API.
The structs ``rte_eth_mirror_conf``, ``rte_eth_vlan_mirror`` and the functions
``rte_eth_mirror_rule_set``, ``rte_eth_mirror_rule_reset`` will be marked
as deprecated in DPDK 20.11, along with the associated macros ``ETH_MIRROR_*``.
This API will be fully removed in DPDK 21.11.
* ethdev: Some internal APIs for driver usage are exported in the .map file.
Now DPDK has ``__rte_internal`` marker so we can mark internal APIs and move
them to the INTERNAL block in .map. Although these APIs are internal it will