From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com (mail-wm0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E9AAE02 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:51:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f53.google.com with SMTP id v199so65080081wmv.0 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:51:43 -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=nuTMznEo/s+iB5JFAvdoqQXcoayAiw+RtjYLnmJIAW4=; b=Amk6KGiZjXKuYZ49/ynXg2yLlE5Doh8Rlgicm1ggw0mxIyCHhFNEV41tlXb2bfYI7c 8cMaunE4JLKm3v1vuoIzgkM800pKx0FgQqwZgEOERmN4hdiaJ6InsnZmrtfdyrx7bdr+ sBhCaOgTzjBJ8VPUyI0WdLWSO4cNrcaB3bib/5/r9SUPB71kl7KHDBQ9biE9wgSJo9sr VEvCEqotp12VxHZd/J8HTu7a8LJh/YP1+FGbWE5dgFlzv4t5fMY2beoa+0WKWyywKYwe /yYc2KFzv/Dazm/4orRZQDvYr4LUal+YvpfSCf3g7qsRUsx84sH94a+Oiqt4pbu9xBdN 8cWg== 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=nuTMznEo/s+iB5JFAvdoqQXcoayAiw+RtjYLnmJIAW4=; b=kFlr1ncoiid3H4PJm+m9SWsOT0bYmlTt58VVTOj6n1SXGdSXIYIhDCqkvbHHECoaSU 46EV3RHmVwg9YUHCjjE0F6eDuf2LPBowBYhy8ZRHuqn38mpKh73BV2exhJFTDRybOVWU gatir0nwoqL2Ux34icT5xPCzdsEkcw38Pz5IC2AR3x2PFwFi29p0fb/1DBCSNANg1A6x XknCx2013Z4VeZB3Gmjtim8lfcDrKo4VD1L9TxSQbYd6lmA9cRjtNQNu1wUI5gCby7AB wAKfkvFyVwDBzaAXJjy7yfKwQmFi3hI6NJ+8HTUVNQdSwRpunhh0GlPhUxSVIKW57mo+ 2uPA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tLzs15SDw3P+RHnx6a++LLjYg8vULhpvoffHAve/FR0D/r9z7dArPktJTckj0Rrf9ho X-Received: by 10.194.117.132 with SMTP id ke4mr4603920wjb.111.1465393902873; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z14sm290405wjw.6.2016.06.08.06.51.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:51:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Jerin Jacob Cc: Bruce Richardson , Ferruh Yigit , dev@dpdk.org Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:51:41 +0200 Message-ID: <3853144.8KaQUqvgvq@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160608133253.GA6248@localhost.localdomain> References: <1464540424-12631-1-git-send-email-jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com> <20160608132254.GC24744@bricha3-MOBL3> <20160608133253.GA6248@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/20] DPDK PMD for ThunderX NIC device 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: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:51:43 -0000 2016-06-08 19:02, Jerin Jacob: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 02:22:55PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 06:13:21PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:30:28PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > > > > On 6/7/2016 5:40 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote: > > > > Hi Jerin, > > > > > > > > In patch subject, as tag, other drivers are using only driver name, and > > > > Intel drivers also has "driver/base", since base code has some special > > > > case. For thunderx, what do you think about keeping subject as: > > > > "thunderx: ...." > > > > > > > > > > Hi Ferruh, > > > > > > We may add crypto or other builtin ThunderX HW accelerated block drivers > > > in future to DPDK. > > > So that is the reason why I thought of keeping the subject as thunderx/nicvf. > > > If you don't have any objection then I would like to keep it as > > > thunderx/nicvf or just nicvf. > > > > Are you upstreaming kernel modules for this device? If so, what is the Linux > > kernel module-name for this device going to be, as perhaps that can help us > > here? > > Yes, Kernel module has been upstreamed. > the commit log in linux kernel is "net: thunderx: ......." If you want to modify the conventions, we just need to agree on a patch modifying the guidelines. We can think about the proposal of Ferruh to use net/ and crypto/ prefixes. The most important is to have something short and easy to parse when quick browsing the git history.