On 7/10/17, 1:37 AM, "Ilya Maximets" <i.maxim...@samsung.com> wrote:
> ‘chceksum’ is misspelled > > Since these patches really only affect ‘dpdk’, the module name ‘dpdk’ may more accurately > reflect the real effect of these patches. Please, don't do that. Only patches that changes lib/dpdk.{c,h} should have 'dpdk' prefix in subject line. All other patches should have proper module name according to code they're changing. I wanted to rise this issue many times ago. So, maybe it's time. There are many places where changes made to improve the DPDK-enabled datapath, but the most of changes are generic and doesn't have many DPDK-related code. Such patches doesn't need to have 'dpdk' as a prefix. This only makes a mess from the git history and you can never say for sure what module was changed in a particular patch by looking only on its subject. These changes affect only the dpdk datapath. I gave a full response to Sugesh. IMHO, patches should have prefixes according to modules they're changing like it is described in contribution guide. Generic changes should be reviewed by not only people interested in DPDK. Addition of such misleading prefixes forces them to miss maybe important generic changes. In this case, the module name is misleading since the changes affect much more than just conntrack; that is the point. The changes affect generic checksum offloading by virtue of changes to dp-packet. These changes are in fact specific to dpdk. From the other side, many people adds 'dpdk' prefix to patches targeted to 'netdev-dpdk' which is not right too. All patches should have the right prefix according to the module they are trying to change. That is my point of view. In this particular case patches actually adds generic functionality which can be used even without DPDK. For example, if we'll implement checksum offloading for netdev-linux (not so hard). DPDK already mentioned in commit message as the target and there is no need for misleading prefixes. That is not correct. Here in the present, these changes are specific to dpdk. We work with the present not one possible hypotectical future. ‘IF’, in future, other code is changed that allows sharing of some code changes beyond dpdk, then discussion of netdev-linux becomes relevant. It is not relevant now. Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev