From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f46.google.com (mail-wm0-f46.google.com [74.125.82.46]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7876328BF for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:30:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f46.google.com with SMTP id v188so11717665wme.1 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:30:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=w+7ZFmJ1+O3eisJdYWWtbNkoAMhnyLD+a3oNjEWnA9M=; b=UJznREFktbbWqDGGqA7I+eZXtCl6R2IsKwFazzGYaev/mCKXdZPSdkt2tFlyMwwxOD uKotwt89Zy3hw9eqGe5nRlPrYXTBZU58DOLwwKmXMuRwKu1Kj9TvO4LztFoWnkIyzGB5 8H8FacAHDWcPVXTWMH2KRbofHll7bAofeL+fdurH9IQ0HhgsKz3tDmj0y9d15QA4tfo4 ruM4Md+iy4BMU+iaKddDFiIb4NVk5TueYJP7ZMV3Zru9bHlqA+I3gKrOrCDmdJfMuo1n 43UKhZW9Difif6gyEL/NVFmJ6BpxXBYonKYQgtguHUXEqh7Fgu1CEXL2CYwyPfrzfHU8 Socg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=w+7ZFmJ1+O3eisJdYWWtbNkoAMhnyLD+a3oNjEWnA9M=; b=TlkTRg+PiP0B+gjjovUNczoCq/3ZzPzDxlLa9nFm+3GmvLMCt9VyaefzMt3/oCA3YT I9aqbdO5w77EbQwHx4JsIRo7IzQqEElVv9RZqyMWONJzRPWTR8rmjf4PfZiTe8krVbct s4RSiHfsl/tikx3StAzvXSJY55ThkcC9KVO5/TnV0HCwuf/mID92drZgHuro7Cay5tBB 5GIszT7pFJodQbOh1t4QaSvb/oLruku5lTWmMfnE1KDJyIWLbQjklKf+m8UJLfohnYlI eYXBiwCFMf7FD6Fpx+6P7CSHyI0Ndfu1WxBjBhUF4tKDlfzf3zBJayAsbJ2tR1Yn2vPK K3jw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FW8XJJxxXAAMRhYfytcEZ/7f/Gk+EWa9m30nI6MkCH/0wEMY78e/+5n1gqjCFDhcbJW X-Received: by 10.194.231.104 with SMTP id tf8mr18605909wjc.5.1461313837297; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (APoitiers-658-1-53-118.w86-217.abo.wanadoo.fr. [86.217.192.118]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x2sm6878173wjr.33.2016.04.22.01.30.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:30:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: "Tan, Jianfeng" Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Huawei Xie , rich.lane@bigswitch.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com, mst@redhat.com, nakajima.yoshihiro@lab.ntt.co.jp, p.fedin@samsung.com, michael.qiu@intel.com, ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com, mukawa@igel.co.jp, nhorman@tuxdrver.com Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:30:14 +0200 Message-ID: <1545177.Fgvr8s2Srp@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <5719D213.1090608@intel.com> References: <1446748276-132087-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <2043282.0nxpx5z4RF@xps13> <5719D213.1090608@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] virtio/vdev: add a new vdev named eth_cvio X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:30:37 -0000 2016-04-22 15:26, Tan, Jianfeng: > Hi Thomas, > > On 4/21/2016 6:05 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2016-04-21 02:56, Jianfeng Tan: > >> Add a new virtual device named eth_cvio, it can be used just like > >> eth_ring, eth_null, etc. > > Why this name eth_cvio? > > Why the prefix eth_? > > The virtio-net driver uses a kernel device. Here it is a userland device. > > Why not virtio-user? > > I was looking for an appropriate name for this device; have tried a lot, > but none is good enough. Thank you for your advice virtio-user. > The prefix eth_ is to keep the same style with eth_ring, eth_null. > So how about eth_virtio_user? I prefer not adding eth_. Just my opinion.