From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"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>,
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
<techboard@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove alias for virtual devices
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:43:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93b72846-f2c5-19df-a630-acc0bee5a1fb@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37814289.10thIPus4b@thomas>
On 9/21/2022 3:26 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>
> 21/09/2022 15:34, Ferruh Yigit:
>> Virtual devices are probed/matched based on name, and this name is user
>> facing value, since device name is provided by user as eal '--vdev'
>> parameter, like:
>> `dpdk-testpmd --vdev net_null0`.
>>
>> The current name format is 'net_<pmd_name>', but previously it was
>> 'eth_<pmd_name>', and an alias to legacy naming format was introduced
>> for backward compatibility.
>> Commit 9fa80cb26bd0 ("net: register aliases for renamed vdev drivers")
>>
>> Since new device name format is around for 6 years, removing alias for
>> legacy naming.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
>> ---
>> Alias for device name is used by other device abstraction layers too,
>> ('crypto', 'baseband', 'raw'), since I am not aware of their maturity
>> level, leaving them out in this patch.
>
> I think this patch requires a techboard vote
> as it is dropping some user-facing naming.
>
ack, can you please take this to techboard agenda.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-21 14:43 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 [this message]
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
2022-10-27 8:35 ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-01-12 11:02 ` Bruce Richardson
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