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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	dev@dpdk.org, techboard@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bus/vdev: automatically add eth alias for net drivers
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:58:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8yh6-oxjq8XfcE_TQpgbUazf6uRZevT06frP6SM=r=mjg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b30c1c78-2885-7bac-b7d8-222900252cd2@amd.com>

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 1:52 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com> wrote:
> >> Honestly I think the status quo is OK:
> >> We have some aliases in some PMD for some historical reason
> >> and everybody looks OK with that. Isn't it?
> >>
> >
> > Well, the inconsistency bugs me a little, but if others feel the status quo
> > is ok, I'm ok with that.
>
> In my perspective this is for cleanup, and new PMDs keep adding alias
> because they are copying from existing drivers.
> Except from above there is no harm to have alias.

Do we have a "valid" case of adding new aliases?
I don't think it is the case, so we can warn of new aliases
introduction in checkpatches.sh.

At worse, if a valid case is identified later, checkpatches.sh is only
a warning in patchwork and maintainers will manually review this
warning.


-- 
David Marchand


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-27  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-21 13:34 [PATCH] drivers/net: remove alias for virtual devices Ferruh Yigit
2022-09-21 14:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-09-21 14:43   ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-09-21 14:49   ` Bruce Richardson
2022-10-19 13:13   ` Bruce Richardson
2022-11-06 10:43     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2022-10-19 13:11 ` [PATCH] bus/vdev: automatically add eth alias for net drivers Bruce Richardson
2022-10-19 13:20   ` Bruce Richardson
2022-10-20  8:23     ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-10-20  8:48       ` Bruce Richardson
2022-10-20 11:51         ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-10-27  7:58           ` David Marchand [this message]
2022-10-27  8:35             ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-01-12 11:02   ` Bruce Richardson

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