Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 12/12] raw/ioat: deprecate ioat rawdev driver

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 02:33:35PM +0000, Conor Walsh wrote:
> Deprecate the rawdev IOAT driver as both IOAT and IDXD drivers have
> moved to dmadev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Conor Walsh <conor.walsh@intel.com>
> ---

This probably needs a release note entry for it too.
With such a RN addition, feel free to add my acked-by.

>  MAINTAINERS                 | 2 +-
>  doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index ccabba9169..a4bcd2d024 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ T: git://dpdk.org/next/dpdk-next-net-intel
>  F: drivers/raw/ifpga/
>  F: doc/guides/rawdevs/ifpga.rst
>  
> -IOAT Rawdev
> +IOAT Rawdev - DEPRECATED
>  M: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
>  F: drivers/raw/ioat/
>  F: doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst
> index a65530bd30..98d15dd032 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rawdevs/ioat.rst
> @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
>  IOAT Rawdev Driver
>  ===================
>  
> +.. warning::
> +        As of DPDK 21.11 the rawdev implementation of the IOAT driver has been deprecated.
> +        Please use the dmadev library instead.
> +
>  The ``ioat`` rawdev driver provides a poll-mode driver (PMD) for Intel\ |reg|
>  Data Streaming Accelerator `(Intel DSA)
>  <https://01.org/blogs/2019/introducing-intel-data-streaming-accelerator>`_ and for Intel\ |reg|
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>