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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: make driver names consistent
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2016-10-18 21:06, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:50:16PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> > >From my understanding this is a massive API breakage. This forces all
> > existing users of the virtual PMDs to change with zero benefit. Even
> > if that isn't enough it also makes it impossible to switch between
> > releases by recompiling.
> > 
> > Can we please revert these changes and work on some aliasing support
> > for the PMDs to fix it long term?
> 
> +1. Aliasing is also something I would suggest before making such renames.

It is a brutal change, yes.
It was announced in 16.07 release notes though.

We can try to make this change more progressive by keeping old names
as aliases for some time.
Is there a volunteer to work on vdev names aliases,
with the target of integrating them in RC2 or RC3?