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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "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>, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.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 16:26:11 +0200
Message-ID: <37814289.10thIPus4b@thomas>
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I think this patch requires a techboard vote
as it is dropping some user-facing naming.
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.