On 4/28/2023 11:31 AM, jer...@marvell.com wrote: > From: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> > > The LiquidIO product line has been substituted with CN9K/CN10K > OCTEON product line smart NICs located at drivers/net/octeon_ep/. > > DPDK 20.08 has categorized the LiquidIO driver as UNMAINTAINED > because of the absence of updates in the driver. > > Due to the above reasons, the driver removed from DPDK 23.07. > > Also removed deprecation notice entry for the removal in > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst. > > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> > --- > MAINTAINERS | 8 - > doc/guides/nics/features/liquidio.ini | 29 - > doc/guides/nics/index.rst | 1 - > doc/guides/nics/liquidio.rst | 169 -- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 - > doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst | 9 +- > drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_23xx_reg.h | 165 -- > drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_23xx_vf.c | 513 ------ > drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_23xx_vf.h | 63 - > drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_hw_defs.h | 239 --- > drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_mbox.c | 246 --- > drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_mbox.h | 102 - > drivers/net/liquidio/lio_ethdev.c | 2147 ---------------------- > drivers/net/liquidio/lio_ethdev.h | 179 -- > drivers/net/liquidio/lio_logs.h | 58 - > drivers/net/liquidio/lio_rxtx.c | 1804 ------------------ > drivers/net/liquidio/lio_rxtx.h | 740 -------- > drivers/net/liquidio/lio_struct.h | 661 ------- > drivers/net/liquidio/meson.build | 16 - > drivers/net/meson.build | 1 - > 20 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7156 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/liquidio.ini > delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/liquidio.rst > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_23xx_reg.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_23xx_vf.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_23xx_vf.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_hw_defs.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_mbox.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/base/lio_mbox.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/lio_ethdev.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/lio_ethdev.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/lio_logs.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/lio_rxtx.c > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/lio_rxtx.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/lio_struct.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/net/liquidio/meson.build >
This cause warning in the ABI check script [1], not because there is an ABI breakage, but because how script works, that needs to be fixed as well. [1] Checking ABI compatibility of build-gcc-shared .../dpdk-next-net/devtools/../devtools/check-abi.sh /tmp/dpdk-abiref/v22.11.1/build-gcc-shared .../dpdk-next-net/build-gcc-shared/install Error: cannot find librte_net_liquidio.so.23.0 in .../dpdk-next-net/build-gcc-shared/install <...> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_23_07.rst > @@ -59,14 +59,7 @@ New Features > Removed Items > ------------- > > -.. This section should contain removed items in this release. Sample format: > - > - * Add a short 1-2 sentence description of the removed item > - in the past tense. > - > - This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it. > - Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. > - ======================================================= > +* Removed LiquidIO ethdev driver located at ``drivers/net/liquidio/`` > > No need to remove the section comment. Rest looks good to me.
