[PATCH v2] doc: announce rename of octeontx_ep driver

[Veerasenareddy Burru]

To enable single unified driver to support current OcteonTx and
future Octeon PCI endpoint NICs, octeontx_ep driver will be renamed
to octeon_ep to reflect common driver for all Octeon based
PCI endpoint NICs.

Signed-off-by: Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru at marvell.com>
---
v2 - reworded the announcement as per review comment.

 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 4e5b23c53d..63c6dac5e5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -125,3 +125,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   applications should be updated to use the ``dmadev`` library instead,
   with the underlying HW-functionality being provided by the ``ioat`` or
   ``idxd`` dma drivers
+
+* drivers/octeontx_ep: rename octeontx_ep driver
+
+  Current driver name ``octeontx_ep`` was to support OcteonTX line of products.
+  It will be renamed to ``octeon_ep`` in DPDK 22.11 to apply for all
+  Octeon EP products: OcteonTX + future Octeon chipsets.
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