[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] drivers: make driver names consistent

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Tue Oct 18 18:46:40 CEST 2016


2016-10-18 22:18, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2016-10-18 21:06, Yuanhan Liu:
> > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:50:16PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> > > > >From my understanding this is a massive API breakage. This forces all
> > > > existing users of the virtual PMDs to change with zero benefit. Even
> > > > if that isn't enough it also makes it impossible to switch between
> > > > releases by recompiling.
> > > > 
> > > > Can we please revert these changes and work on some aliasing support
> > > > for the PMDs to fix it long term?
> > > 
> > > +1. Aliasing is also something I would suggest before making such renames.
> > 
> > It is a brutal change, yes.
> > It was announced in 16.07 release notes though.
> 
> Yes, but it still took me a while (by running git bisect) to figure out
> what went wrong: I wasn't aware of such note, that I was thinking maybe
> something is broken.
> 
> Later I also got quite few same complains. It may also took them a while
> to know what's happened.
> 
> Anyway, my point is, for this kind of change, we should have added the
> alias support firstly.

Yes.

> If that's been done, then the announcement is not
> needed at all?

The announcement would be needed to remove the aliases, later.


> > We can try to make this change more progressive by keeping old names
> > as aliases for some time.
> > Is there a volunteer to work on vdev names aliases,
> > with the target of integrating them in RC2 or RC3?




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