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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon
<thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> 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 ...