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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37814289.10thIPus4b@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220921133451.4164506-1-ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-21 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-21 13:34 [PATCH] drivers/net: remove alias for virtual devices Ferruh Yigit
2022-09-21 14:26 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2022-09-21 14:43 ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-09-21 14:49 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-10-19 13:13 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-11-06 10:43 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2022-10-19 13:11 ` [PATCH] bus/vdev: automatically add eth alias for net drivers Bruce Richardson
2022-10-19 13:20 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-10-20 8:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-10-20 8:48 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-10-20 11:51 ` Ferruh Yigit
2022-10-27 7:58 ` David Marchand
2022-10-27 8:35 ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-01-12 11:02 ` Bruce Richardson
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