> From: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richard...@intel.com>
> Sent: Friday 24 September 2021 17:57
> To: Walsh, Conor <conor.wa...@intel.com>
> Cc: fengcheng...@huawei.com; jer...@marvell.com; Laatz, Kevin
> <kevin.la...@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 12/12] raw/ioat: deprecate ioat rawdev driver
> 
> 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.wa...@intel.com>
> > ---
> 
> This probably needs a release note entry for it too.
> With such a RN addition, feel free to add my acked-by.

Thanks Bruce, I will add a deprecation notice in v6.
/Conor.

> 
> >  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.richard...@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
> >

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