Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/2] standardize rawdev names

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

05/07/2019 11:35, Bruce Richardson:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 10:33:59AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > The names of the rawdev drivers and the resultant libraries they built
> > were pretty inconsistent. In terms of directory names, some had "rawdev"
> > in the name, e.g. skeleton_rawdev, ifpga_rawdev, while others didn't.
> > Also, for the built .so/.a libraries, the names were not always
> > consistent between make and meson, as, while meson enforced a consistent
> > naming scheme, make did not, leading to differences - especially for
> > those drivers with "rawdev" in the directory name.
> > 
> > This patchset attempts to make things more standardized by removing
> > "rawdev" from all directory names - the drivers are in the "drivers/raw"
> > directory after all - and then standardizing the library names to
> > "librte_rawdev_<name>" for both make and meson.
> > 
> > Bruce Richardson (2): drivers/raw: remove rawdev from driver directory
> > names drivers/raw: standardize name format of rawdev drivers
> > 
> Since the .so/.a files we produce are changing, would this patchset - if
> accepted - need a deprecation notice in 19.08 for a future 19.11 merge?

I would say we can merge it in 19.08 without prior notice.
Any other opinion?