diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 2f2f0d2381..11a9d0925b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
 
   - ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init``
 
+* cryptodev: the following function will have an extra parameter, passing a
+  statically allocated crypto driver structure, instead of calling malloc,
+  in 17.11:
+
+  - ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver``
+
 * librte_table: The ``key_mask`` parameter will be added to all the hash tables
   that currently do not have it, as well as to the hash compute function prototype.
   The non-"do-sig" versions of the hash tables will be removed