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

[Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 5:16 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/9/2023 7:07 AM, jerinj@marvell.com wrote:
> > From: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@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@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@amd.com>

Ping for merge.