diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-cxl
similarity index 99%
rename from Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
rename to Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-cxl
index cfc48a87706b..8cba1b626985 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-cxl
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+The cxl driver is no longer maintained, and will be removed from the kernel in
+the near future.
+
 Please note that attributes that are shared between devices are stored in
 the directory pointed to by the symlink device/.
 For example, the real path of the attribute /sys/class/cxl/afu0.0s/irqs_max is
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 17daa9ee9384..1737a8ff4f2b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6228,8 +6228,8 @@ CXL (IBM Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface CAPI) DRIVER
 M:	Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>
 M:	Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
 L:	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
-S:	Supported
-F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
+S:	Obsolete
+F:	Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-cxl
 F:	Documentation/arch/powerpc/cxl.rst
 F:	arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-cxl.c
 F:	drivers/misc/cxl/
diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/cxl/Kconfig
index 5efc4151bf58..15307f5e4307 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/Kconfig
@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ config CXL_BASE
 	select PPC_64S_HASH_MMU
 
 config CXL
-	tristate "Support for IBM Coherent Accelerators (CXL)"
+	tristate "Support for IBM Coherent Accelerators (CXL) (DEPRECATED)"
 	depends on PPC_POWERNV && PCI_MSI && EEH
 	select CXL_BASE
-	default m
 	help
+	  The cxl driver is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+	  kernel release.
+
 	  Select this option to enable driver support for IBM Coherent
 	  Accelerators (CXL).  CXL is otherwise known as Coherent Accelerator
 	  Processor Interface (CAPI).  CAPI allows accelerators in FPGAs to be
diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/of.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/of.c
index cf6bd8a43056..e26ee85279fa 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/of.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/of.c
@@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ int cxl_of_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	int ret;
 	int slice = 0, slice_ok = 0;
 
+	dev_err_once(&pdev->dev, "DEPRECATION: cxl is deprecated and will be removed in a future kernel release\n");
+
 	pr_devel("in %s\n", __func__);
 
 	np = pdev->dev.of_node;
diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
index 3d52f9b92d0d..92bf7c5c7b35 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/pci.c
@@ -1726,6 +1726,8 @@ static int cxl_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 	int slice;
 	int rc;
 
+	dev_err_once(&dev->dev, "DEPRECATED: cxl is deprecated and will be removed in a future kernel release\n");
+
 	if (cxl_pci_is_vphb_device(dev)) {
 		dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "cxl_init_adapter: Ignoring cxl vphb device\n");
 		return -ENODEV;