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doc: announce removal of legacy ethdev filtering API

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Deprecation of rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl() was announced in 2016,
and confirmed last year by avoiding include of rte_eth_ctrl.h.
After 4 years, it is time to complete the removal of the API
which is replaced with rte_flow.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
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@ -127,8 +127,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR,
HASH and L2_TUNNEL, is superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow) in
PMDs that implement the latter.
Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
The legacy API will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
* ethdev: Update API functions returning ``void`` to return ``int`` with
negative errno values to indicate various error conditions (e.g.