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[v2] doc: announce rename of octeontx_ep driver

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Commit Message

Veerasenareddy Burru July 13, 2022, 8:08 a.m. UTC 
  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(+)

Comments

Jerin Jacob July 13, 2022, 9:28 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 1:41 PM Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru@marvell.com> wrote:
>
> 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>


Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@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
>
Thomas Monjalon July 16, 2022, 5:03 p.m. UTC | #2 
13/07/2022 11:28, Jerin Jacob:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 1:41 PM Veerasenareddy Burru <vburru@marvell.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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>
> 
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

There are only 2 acks but it is not controversial at all, so
Applied, thanks.
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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.