On Wed, Oct 07, 2026 at 09:17:37AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> DPDK has carried two telemetry socket interfaces since 20.05: the
> original legacy socket and the v2 socket that superseded it.
>
> The legacy socket was kept only to support dpdk-telemetry-client.py,
> which is its sole consumer. Everything it reports is available over the
> v2 socket.
>
> Announce removal of the legacy socket and the client script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
> ---
> doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 56a67c372e..fba852020d 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -138,3 +138,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
> * bus/vmbus: Starting DPDK 25.11, all the vmbus API defined in
> ``drivers/bus/vmbus/rte_bus_vmbus.h`` will become internal to DPDK.
> Those API functions are used internally by DPDK core and netvsc PMD.
> +
> +* telemetry: The legacy telemetry socket and the ``dpdk-telemetry-client.py``
> + script are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
> + Use the ``dpdk-telemetry.py`` script instead.
> --
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>
