Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: make driver names consistent

[Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>]

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.

	--yliu
> 
> Thanks,
> Jan
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
> > 2016-08-24 22:37, Mcnamara, John:
> >> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Pablo de Lara
> >> >
> >> > ...
> >> >
> >> > -    $RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd -c '0xf' -n 4 --vdev 'eth_pcap0,rx_pcap=/path/to/ file_rx.pcap,tx_pcap=/path/to/file_tx.pcap' -- --port-topology=chained
> >> > +    $RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd -c '0xf' -n 4 --vdev 'net_pcap0,rx_pcap=/path/to/ file_rx.pcap,tx_pcap=/path/to/file_tx.pcap' -- --port-topology=chained
> >>
> >>
> >> I know that this is an existing issue but there shouldn't be a space in
> >> "/path/to/ file". Perhaps you could fix that (in a number of places) as part
> >> of this patch. You could probably leave out the "/path/to/" part altogether as
> >> it may be clearer, see below.
> >>
> >> Also, could you wrap the long code lines in the sections that you change at
> >> 80 chars using "\" to keep them on the page in the PDF docs, like:
> >>
> >>     $RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd -c '0xf' -n 4 \
> >>         --vdev 'net_pcap0,rx_pcap=/path/to/file_rx.pcap,tx_pcap=/path/to/file_tx.pcap' \
> >>         -- --port-topology=chained
> >>
> >> Or without the path part:
> >>
> >>     $RTE_TARGET/app/testpmd -c '0xf' -n 4 \
> >>         --vdev 'net_pcap0,rx_pcap=file_rx.pcap,tx_pcap=file_tx.pcap' \
> >>         -- --port-topology=chained
> >
> > Applied with above comments fixed and release notes updated, thanks.