[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/20] DPDK PMD for ThunderX NIC device

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Jun 8 17:08:37 CEST 2016


On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:42:14PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-06-08 18:13, Jerin Jacob:
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:30:28PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > > Hi Jerin,
> > > 
> > > In patch subject, as tag, other drivers are using only driver name, and
> > > Intel drivers also has "driver/base", since base code has some special
> > > case. For thunderx, what do you think about keeping subject as:
> > >  "thunderx: ...."
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Ferruh,
> > 
> > We may add crypto or other builtin ThunderX HW accelerated block drivers
> > in future to DPDK.
> > So that is the reason why I thought of keeping the subject as thunderx/nicvf.
> > If you don't have any objection then I would like to keep it as
> > thunderx/nicvf or just nicvf.
> 
> I don't like the name nicvf but I guess that's the official name?
> 
> Thus I agree the title should be thunderx/nicvf or thunderx_nicvf.

I think I'd prefer the underscore version.

/Bruce


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