26/05/2017 18:11, Ferruh Yigit: > Device name resides in two different locations, in rte_device->name and > in ethernet device private data.
Yes would be nice to remove the name from rte_eth_dev_data. > For now, the copy in the ethernet device private data is required for > multi process support, the name is the how secondary process finds about > primary process device. Yes it is in rte_eth_dev_attach_secondary(). This secondary process forces us to write ugly data structures. > But for drivers there is no reason to use the copy in the ethernet > device private data. Yes I agree. There are probably other places where we can avoid using this field. I see rte_eth_dev_get_name_by_port() and rte_eth_dev_get_port_by_name() using rte_eth_dev_data[port].name. > This patch updates PMDs to use only rte_device->name. > > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
