From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qt0-f181.google.com (mail-qt0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F412B8E for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:08:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-qt0-f181.google.com with SMTP id w38so8947094qtb.0 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:08:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=canonical-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=/qw8bEamF1iOoWIvp5wLAM163VR3qAQnHqXzWp/oyYg=; b=WjjwXmKWi7YCxGmfP/i4x2gvYrdnwifZ/iqoupa6MXZorN4GOp6G6PwRNqgX0xnLGW KHtaXWf9m7cJD5zCI2+IlouRlFZY5toDvS2Y3YKwpnracx/sVYZMt+j/hEPvBNJ6dTf0 Yttz4Ba6fou5scIoP/UaxCCBD+Y+XsIsfI+Oz/QvOETovIwvuhfC9a+mGIAkP4QE3srr kuEbrfBH9Puuu5lOocG8b4DGohXxLBQE4Vx0s/Wt5YrlXCkm2r8mU17YF9unbjAjglUK jyKmc5I72sNg4uChxU7ob07liksTNTSIhoR2h7AcZn/dLvZ545wIgonttdCBur0PF5As hW2A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=/qw8bEamF1iOoWIvp5wLAM163VR3qAQnHqXzWp/oyYg=; b=mRujkJYpRozE8RA9Jd283QPLRtU2Ib5tO8pln1KjyaIvCoSgPz/DkZ0bl9L8LwYNrZ HZj0akBdlDM7gwzauEz+Ij0WDHWm2Fz/0Q+0yC1aKt1JB4miKC8BzO5y5N5ij1Y7i83S WcDryWWEGtO/SURq2izt2g5oU1ezuAIWX5Q6VZCLiNk6IiPPJLOq+OofSE1AEg061mr6 c36LcRDkq2fMgknsFdyNllKU/7T0go1KcQIlsBc9xiwmisL/ZC6lmxopzhCw9N6p0rAZ gNiRtHvqHy5SgtTLjZ6uA7kBnUWRSWe4sLQRVLtvTl+FV1vSWztBuXkLq3AOziNREVqr UBsQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJpP6ePqdM8aaJ7VO/ncwe9E6+b4xW+gab1bhdqjeXj+pXn55BJ43YJt3QUB4d9jQihPWCrEIZGObD1YpIR X-Received: by 10.200.39.33 with SMTP id g30mr26297350qtg.16.1468213709279; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:08:29 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.55.23.77 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:08:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1468083394-94907-1-git-send-email-pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com> References: <1468083394-94907-1-git-send-email-pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com> From: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:08:09 +0200 Message-ID: To: Pablo de Lara Cc: dev , "Mcnamara, John" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 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: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 05:08:31 -0000 Hi, I'm all in for consistent naming and this "only" is the deprecation notice ahead of time which is great. Looking ahead I wanted to ask for opinions if more than just me would consider it useful to keep aliases on the old names when the rename happens. That way any sort of old config would continue to work. Of course I could do that in the scope of the scripts that consume the names and apply the driver loads. But then that is true for everybody out there who has some kind of config/tooling around the old names - so I thought it is worth to ask for opinions. Kind Regards, Christian Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Pablo de Lara < pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com> 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. > -- > 2.7.4 > >