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Linville" , Chas Williams , "Min Hu (Connor)" , Liron Himi , Tetsuya Mukawa , Harman Kalra , Bruce Richardson , Matan Azrad , Maxime Coquelin , Chenbo Xia CC: , Andrew Rybchenko , Stephen Hemminger , References: <20220921133451.4164506-1-ferruh.yigit@amd.com> <37814289.10thIPus4b@thomas> From: Ferruh Yigit In-Reply-To: <37814289.10thIPus4b@thomas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EOPAttributedMessage: 0 X-MS-PublicTrafficType: Email X-MS-TrafficTypeDiagnostic: BN1NAM02FT023:EE_|PH0PR02MB8810:EE_ X-MS-Office365-Filtering-Correlation-Id: 39f13181-2dd1-4754-0fd8-08da9bdfa103 X-MS-Exchange-SenderADCheck: 2 X-MS-Exchange-AntiSpam-Relay: 0 X-Microsoft-Antispam: BCL:0; X-Microsoft-Antispam-Message-Info: 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 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:149.199.80.198; CTRY:IE; LANG:en; SCL:1; SRV:; IPV:CAL; SFV:NSPM; H:xir-pvapexch01.xlnx.xilinx.com; PTR:unknown-80-198.xilinx.com; CAT:NONE; SFS:(13230022)(4636009)(346002)(396003)(136003)(39860400002)(376002)(451199015)(40470700004)(46966006)(5660300002)(40460700003)(82310400005)(2616005)(316002)(7416002)(47076005)(44832011)(336012)(31686004)(54906003)(356005)(35950700001)(26005)(9786002)(86362001)(8936002)(36756003)(40480700001)(921005)(4326008)(41300700001)(498600001)(82740400003)(53546011)(110136005)(31696002)(70586007)(2906002)(70206006)(8676002)(7636003)(50156003)(43740500002); DIR:OUT; SFP:1101; X-OriginatorOrg: xilinx.onmicrosoft.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2022 14:43:20.5972 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Network-Message-Id: 39f13181-2dd1-4754-0fd8-08da9bdfa103 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Id: 657af505-d5df-48d0-8300-c31994686c5c X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-OriginalAttributedTenantConnectingIp: TenantId=657af505-d5df-48d0-8300-c31994686c5c; Ip=[149.199.80.198]; Helo=[xir-pvapexch01.xlnx.xilinx.com] X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthSource: BN1NAM02FT023.eop-nam02.prod.protection.outlook.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthAs: Anonymous X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-FromEntityHeader: HybridOnPrem X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: PH0PR02MB8810 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org 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_', but previously it was >> 'eth_', 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 >> --- >> 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.