From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com (mail-wm0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5470B2C01 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:45:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f50.google.com with SMTP id f193so4543583wmg.1 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:45:07 -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:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E2aOPegU9c3xfu8rqPpNglrLYpMsVbMTTu6RaekngIg=; b=qcdEejuMQGa8SosCCWwaZpiHDSane5iIx0TuBN7vzsr10gaxIXGlTBTN+YobLuioLw Oh+qE7Bw9PcWUuV3Aj/mmNyXKy5ESVoCHBKM1PeDPEiD1uH6+uwh3T3sguiDbKkuxJS0 P69m5SF8gPJD05LK4dj91asZ5LYyFqsfCR66ojrZB9FYfewZBlmNt+8zNb8IRHfeCauN xYhCj4gSz/1xfDlyUlg/sqekv9KApK9fSjM3xLrAbTTmdEtjdU38p3UQ5Zvq+BdzasPM SHnHmPD9r2vubUgQk5bVw4w4CnsQgCXE1ZpwA0RLnoEk4sCl84xQZr5KsfbZYT/gSYDd nKsQ== 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:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E2aOPegU9c3xfu8rqPpNglrLYpMsVbMTTu6RaekngIg=; b=H/zSpYfmARQA7ziK6px4Hfpsf0rmZ6zxypGehGzcf7AFUq2KHQx01ruW4YeqLRBoKj btY0xxCt7/tS/o9nWzqONGW2FTvZiIz3y0HpSm14lhFKK1njZ2bwis785XG0Aqa8y3Pp 71kYOYB7VJyWnR/+CKyIl5KamMiv2wokMBzwIkQpiVbulWzy2pR+tmfFVCARRkrczQ3O pMfBdgp4lFzqngiZ/+c+bcvXP0opwAzDXhTNndOba4er+pYhbwodXBi64OseNThBhI8q LLwBuRSvcJdzKhEnoQl11foVH8tv6ybsa6a3+6tE6AL8Up5dod+PHsSSJ3vdFz7h/l+q PI3Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9Rmy9iXIvE1BuSckKiBFGDddQacHcsbRo4cJXlDtJfEFzPjj4oCrIMwNhr+0AAeu2yr8 X-Received: by 10.28.125.150 with SMTP id y144mr12867193wmc.77.1476809107110; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id uq6sm63964710wjc.37.2016.10.18.09.45.06 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:45:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Jan Blunck Cc: Yuanhan Liu , "De Lara Guarch, Pablo" , dev@dpdk.org, "Mcnamara, John" Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:45:05 +0200 Message-ID: <2201794.7x9BqQcEvp@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1472077494-164532-1-git-send-email-pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com> <10195497.iZAVVgVpbs@xps13> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: make driver names consistent 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: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:45:07 -0000 2016-10-18 17:26, Jan Blunck: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon > 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