[PATCH] 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 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>
---
 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/``
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