From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2BAB378B for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:22:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1782EC04B30D; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.6.25] (vpn1-6-25.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.6.25]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u6SHMRFT015825 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:22:29 -0400 To: Pablo de Lara , dev@dpdk.org References: <1468083394-94907-1-git-send-email-pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com> Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com From: Maxime Coquelin Message-ID: <9443d70d-ff29-9b4c-1a68-09738699fd05@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:22:27 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1468083394-94907-1-git-send-email-pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.23 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce driver name changes 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: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:22:31 -0000 On 07/09/2016 06:56 PM, Pablo de Lara wrote: > Driver names for all the supported devices in DPDK do not have > a naming convention. Some are using a prefix, some are not > and some have long names. Driver names are used when creating > virtual devices, so it is useful to have consistency in the names. > > Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index f502f86..37d65c8 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -41,3 +41,8 @@ Deprecation Notices > * The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated and > will be removed in 16.11. > It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. > + > +* Driver names are quite inconsistent among each others and they will be > + renamed to something more consistent (net_ prefix for net drivers and > + crypto_ for crypto drivers) in 16.11. Some of these driver names are used > + publicly, to create virtual devices, so a deprecation notice is necessary. Consistency is better. Out of curiosity, will a deprecation message be displayed at least or virtual interfaces if probe is tried with deprecated name? Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin Thanks, Maxime