ironic/releasenotes/notes/classic-drivers-deprecation-de464065187d4c14.yaml
Dmitry Tantsur 02378fdcde Deprecate classic drivers
Also address small issues in the release note for the migration
to hardware types.

Change-Id: I32998c5508e01882714a76751482a916d066f938
Partial-Bug: #1690185
2018-01-31 13:26:53 +01:00

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---
prelude: >
This release deprecates classic drivers in favor of hardware types. Please
check `the migration guide
<https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/admin/upgrade-to-hardware-types.html>`_
for information on which hardware types and interfaces to enable before
upgrade and how to update the nodes. The ``ironic-dbsync
online_data_migrations`` command will handle the migration, if all
required hardware types and interfaces are enabled before the upgrade.
deprecations:
- |
The classic drivers, as well as the ``enabled_drivers`` configuration
option, are now deprecated and may be removed in the Rocky relese.
A deprecation warning will be logged for every loaded classic driver.
Check `the migration guide
<https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/admin/upgrade-to-hardware-types.html>`_
for information on how to update your nodes.
.. note::
Check `the classic drivers future specification
<http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/approved/classic-drivers-future.html>`_
for technical information behind this deprecation.