Is Software only FCoE supported in RHEL 7.4?

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Issue

According to the RHEL 7.4 release notes, FCoE has been deprecated:

⁠FCoE software only storage technologies have been deprecated.  

From the 7.4 Release notes:

Software initiated only FCoE storage technologies have been deprecated
The software initiated only portion of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) storage technology has been deprecated due to limited customer adoption. The software initiated only storage technology will remain supported for the life of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The deprecation notice indicates the intention to remove software-initiated-based FCoE support in a future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is important to note that the hardware support and the associated userspace tools (such as drivers, libfc, or libfcoe) are unaffected by this deprecation notice.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
FCoE

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