From: Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru@marvell.com>
To: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru@marvell.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] doc: announce rename of octeontx_ep driver
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:08:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220713080857.28038-1-vburru@marvell.com> (raw)
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@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.
--
2.36.0
next reply other threads:[~2022-07-13 8:11 UTC|newest]
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2022-07-13 8:08 Veerasenareddy Burru [this message]
2022-07-13 9:28 ` Jerin Jacob
2022-07-16 17:03 ` Thomas Monjalon
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