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 <vbu...@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
