On 9/21/2022 3:26 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
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.yi...@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.I think this patch requires a techboard vote as it is dropping some user-facing naming.
ack, can you please take this to techboard agenda.
