[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: deprecation notice to remove LiquidIO ethdev driver

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 3/9/2023 7:07 AM, jerinj at marvell.com wrote:
> From: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
> 
> The LiquidIO product line(drivers/net/liquidio) has been substituted with
> CN9K/CN10K OCTEON product line smart NICs located in drivers/net/octeon_ep/.
> DPDK v20.08 has categorized the LiquidIO driver as UNMAINTAINED
> because of the absence of updates in the driver.
> Due to the above reasons, the driver will be unavailable from DPDK 23.07.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
> ---
>  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 872847e938..eb6c3aedd8 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -135,3 +135,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Its removal has been postponed to let potential users report interest
>    in maintaining it.
>    In the absence of such interest, this library will be removed in DPDK 23.11.
> +
> +* net/liquidio: remove LiquidIO ethdev driver. The LiquidIO product line has been substituted
> +  with CN9K/CN10K OCTEON product line smart NICs located in ``drivers/net/octeon_ep/``.
> +  DPDK v20.08 has categorized the LiquidIO driver as UNMAINTAINED because of the absence of
> +  updates in the driver. Due to the above reasons, the driver will be unavailable from DPDK 23.07.
> + 

Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>