[PATCH] doc: announce rename of octeontx_ep driver

[Jerin Jacob]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 1:40 PM Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru at marvell.com> wrote:
>
> To enable single unified driver to support current OcteonTx and
> future Octeon PCI endpoint NICs, octeontx_ep driver is renamed to
> octeon_ep to reflect common driver for all Octeon based
> PCI endpoint NICs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru at marvell.com>


Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>

> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 4e5b23c53d..d50e68aed4 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -125,3 +125,12 @@ 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 drivers
> +
> +  Current driver name "octeontx_ep" was to support OcteonTX line of products.
> +  This is renamed to apply for all Octeon EP products:
> +  OcteonTX + future Octeon chipsets.
> +  This deprecation notice is to do following actions in DPDK v22.11 version.
> +
> +  #. Rename ``drivers/net/octeontx_ep/`` to ``drivers/net/octeon_ep/``
> --
> 2.36.0
>