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From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: doc: announce renaming of ethdev library
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:29:53 +0200
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Hi Thomas,
just my two cents as Ubuntu DPDK maintainer (and part of the Debian Team
that does the same).
(Yeah I really could reuse it three times :-) )

It will be a bit of effort to adapt, but should be no rocket-science.
I like that eventually the namespace will be cleaner.

Just curious, do we already know by looking ahead if ethdev will get an ABI
bump anyway?
So will the transition be:
a) libethdev4 -> librte_ethdev5
b)libethdev4 -> librte_ethdev4
If it is b) would/should one provide a compat symlink then in your Opinion?

Anyway, for now I think it is fair to say:
Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>

Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:22:21 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
>
> > The right name of ethdev should be dpdk_netdev. However:
> > 1/ We are using rte_ prefix in the code and library names.
> > 2/ The API uses rte_ethdev
> > That's why 16.11 will just have the rte_ prefix prepended to
> > the library filename as every other libraries.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> >
> Acked-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
>