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From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethdev: rename folder to library name
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 06:20:17 +0530
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-----Original Message-----
> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 10:28:59 +0100
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>, John McNamara
>  <john.mcnamara@intel.com>, Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
> CC: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, Bruce Richardson
>  <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: rename folder to library name
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> 
> Library folder name and output library name are same except a few flaws
> including librte_ether.
> 
> This library is network device abstraction layer, the name "ethdev" fits
> better than "ether", and library & header files already named as ethdev.
> 
> Also there is a rte_ether.h in the net library which can cause confusion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

I strongly support this change.

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>