From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>,
"De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: make driver names consistent
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:45:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2201794.7x9BqQcEvp@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALe+Z00mtGMMWBveSwma2hjQgGpuotUOH+fz0nEKpxG4PDiY2w@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-18 17:26, Jan Blunck:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> "But the plans were on display ..." (HHGTTG)
>
> > 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?
> >
>
> I'll give it a try ...
Thanks Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-18 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-24 22:24 Pablo de Lara
2016-08-24 22:27 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2016-08-24 22:37 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-09-16 9:58 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-18 12:50 ` Jan Blunck
2016-10-18 13:06 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-18 13:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-18 14:18 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-18 16:46 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-19 10:05 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-19 12:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-18 15:26 ` Jan Blunck
2016-10-18 16:45 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-10-19 13:32 ` Bruce Richardson
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