On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 06:50:48PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 21/04/2019 11:11, Ophir Munk: > > Thomas - would you like to explain more on the origins of "rte"? > > Ian explained (below) the origin quite clearly. > It has been decided in the early days by Intel. > > > From: Ian Stokes > > > On 4/17/2019 5:34 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:45:33AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote: > > > >> rte comes from dpdk as an acronym for Run Time Environment. Maybe > > > >> even just dropping the 'rte_' portion? > > > > > > > > *That* is what rte stands for? What a ridiculously generic name. > > > > It's like naming a library Operating System. > > Yes I agree that it's ridiculous :) > > I already proposed to replace rte_ with dpdk_ prefix > but the vast majority was against a big replacement. > Would you support such a change?
Yes, though I don't think my opinion should matter much here. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev