doc: announce driver name changes

Driver names for all the supported devices in DPDK do not have
a naming convention. Some are using a prefix, some are not
and some have long names. Driver names are used when creating
virtual devices, so it is useful to have consistency in the names.

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 7fc1185..0967e65 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -37,3 +37,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and
   will be removed in 16.11.
   It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions.
+
+* Driver names are quite inconsistent among each others and they will be
+  renamed to something more consistent (net and crypto prefixes) in 16.11.
+  Some of these driver names are used publicly, to create virtual devices,
+  so a deprecation notice is necessary.