13/09/2018 23:44, Yong Wang: > From: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > The library is called librte_pmd_vmxnet3_uio, so rename the map > file and set the name in the meson file so that the built library names > with meson and legacy makefiles are the same > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > --- > > Not directly related to this change but I have some question on the uio > naming. The original motivation is from the following commit: > > commit 1daf0aae7fd6b3bc38952e9817a1653c1258be66 > Author: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monja...@6wind.com> > Date: Fri Mar 21 13:52:17 2014 +0100 > > vmxnet3: rename library > > In order to distinguish clearly this implementation from the extension > vmxnet3-usermap, it is renamed to reflect its usage of uio framework. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monja...@6wind.com> > Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@redhat.com> > > However, this version of vmxnet3 can also be bound to vfio-pci driver. I > think having the uio naming in that case will be misleading.
Yes, i agree. vmxnet3-usermap is not maintained anymore, so we can remove the uio suffix.
