From: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Chas Williams <chas3@att.com>,
"Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>,
Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com>,
Tetsuya Mukawa <mtetsuyah@gmail.com>,
Harman Kalra <hkalra@marvell.com>, Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>,
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
techboard@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove alias for virtual devices
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 13:43:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2994a2e-e078-e703-3788-cb8af5f639c7@oktetlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y0/36yU1tBIO8uqW@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>
On 10/19/22 16:13, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:26:11PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> I think this patch requires a techboard vote
>> as it is dropping some user-facing naming.
>>
> I think a better solution is to centralize the use of aliases. I've just
> posted a patch to this thread to add the aliasing for net drivers to the
> vdev bus driver. While it does imply a certain amount of abstraction
> "leakage", it does make the use of aliases consistent and saves it being
> spread across multiple driver files.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> /Bruce
Removal is declined by techboard. So, I'm marking the patch as
Rejected.
However, moving allies to common code, as suggested by Bruce,
should be considered.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-06 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-21 13:34 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 [this message]
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
2022-10-27 8:35 ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-01-12 11:02 ` Bruce Richardson
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