From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45E7231C for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:40:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 24 Oct 2016 10:40:31 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,542,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="776986957" Received: from yliu-dev.sh.intel.com (HELO yliu-dev) ([10.239.67.162]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 24 Oct 2016 10:40:30 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:41:26 +0800 From: Yuanhan Liu To: Jan Blunck Cc: dev@dpdk.org, pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com, thomas.monjalon@6wind.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com Message-ID: <20161024174126.GX16751@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> References: <1476956223-30308-1-git-send-email-jblunck@infradead.org> <1477326143-4571-1-git-send-email-jblunck@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1477326143-4571-1-git-send-email-jblunck@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] drivers: add name alias registration for rte_driver 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: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:40:33 -0000 On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:22:21PM -0400, Jan Blunck wrote: > This adds infrastructure for drivers to allow being requested by an alias > so that a renamed driver can still get loaded by its legacy name. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck > Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin > Tested-by: Pablo de Lara Series Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu --yliu