[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] drivers: remove octeontx2 drivers

[Thomas Monjalon]

07/12/2021 12:51, Kevin Traynor:
> On 07/12/2021 11:01, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > Not related with this set specifically, a more general question about updating
> > old release notes.
> > For me release notes should be frozen with the release and shouldn't be updated
> > at all afterwards, but there is no agreement on this and in practice old release
> > notes are updated.
> > 
> > My question is, is there any benefit to keep a separate release notes file for
> > each release, and need to maintain old ones.
> > What about having a single release file, 'release.rst', and reset it after each
> > release?
> > 
> 
> I think there is a benefit to keeping them all - you can quickly 
> look/grep through the files for multiple releases. e.g. if you wanted to 
> check when a driver/feature was added etc. I agree it doesn't make sense 
> to update them, unless there was a mistake at the time of release.

It makes sense to update old release notes, at least to make them compile.
Please remember we generate all of them as part of the guides:
	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/