[dpdk-dev] DPDK namespace

2016-04-11 Thread Thomas Monjalon
2016-04-11 16:10, Don Provan: > I can't believe you guys are seriously considering changing the prefix from > rte_. That's a nightmare at the practical level, but it really doesn't make > as much sense as some of you seem to think. I've always been really impressed > that the names were prefixed

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2016-04-11 Thread Don Provan
I can't believe you guys are seriously considering changing the prefix from rte_. That's a nightmare at the practical level, but it really doesn't make as much sense as some of you seem to think. I've always been really impressed that the names were prefixed with rte_ instead of dpdk_. While the

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2016-04-08 Thread Thomas Monjalon
2016-04-07 11:18, Thomas Monjalon: > 2016-04-05 15:56, Thomas Monjalon: > > The goal of this email is to get some feedback on how important it is > > to fix the DPDK namespace. > > Everybody agree every symbols must be prefixed. Checking and fixing the > namespace consistency will be in the roadma

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2016-04-07 Thread Matthew Hall
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 12:16:34PM +0200, Marc Sune wrote: > I keep not understanding the ABI policy, and particularly why ABI changes > have to be announced once cycle before _if_ there is already at least one > ABI change proposed. DPDK applications will have to recompile anyway. > > This aspect

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2016-04-07 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 04/07/2016 12:18 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Thank you everyone for the feedbacks. > > 2016-04-05 15:56, Thomas Monjalon: >> The goal of this email is to get some feedback on how important it is >> to fix the DPDK namespace. > > Everybody agree every symbols must be prefixed. Checking and fixin

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2016-04-07 Thread Marc Sune
2016-04-07 11:33 GMT+02:00 Panu Matilainen : > On 04/07/2016 12:18 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > >> Thank you everyone for the feedbacks. >> >> 2016-04-05 15:56, Thomas Monjalon: >> >>> The goal of this email is to get some feedback on how important it is >>> to fix the DPDK namespace. >>> >> >> Ev

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2016-04-07 Thread Thomas Monjalon
Thank you everyone for the feedbacks. 2016-04-05 15:56, Thomas Monjalon: > The goal of this email is to get some feedback on how important it is > to fix the DPDK namespace. Everybody agree every symbols must be prefixed. Checking and fixing the namespace consistency will be in the roadmap. It s

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2016-04-07 Thread Marc
On 6 April 2016 at 22:21, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > On 04/06/2016 08:07 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > >> +1: it's a bit weird to keep both, especially for a long while, that > >> every time we turn a rte_ prefix to dpdk_ prefix, we break applications. > >> Instead of breaking applications many t

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2016-04-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 04/06/2016 08:07 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: >> +1: it's a bit weird to keep both, especially for a long while, that >> every time we turn a rte_ prefix to dpdk_ prefix, we break applications. >> Instead of breaking applications many times, I'd prefer to break once. >> Therefore, application

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2016-04-06 Thread Panu Matilainen
v [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon >>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 2:57 PM >>>> To: dev at dpdk.org >>>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK namespace >>>> >>>> DPDK is going to be more popular in Linux distribut

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2016-04-06 Thread Wiles, Keith
e- >>>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 2:57 PM >>>>> To: dev at dpdk.org >>>>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK namespace >>>>> >>>>> DPDK

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2016-04-06 Thread Yuanhan Liu
ent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 2:57 PM > > > To: dev at dpdk.org > > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK namespace > > > > > > DPDK is going to be more popular in Linux distributions. > > > It means people will have some DPDK files in their /usr/include and some > &

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2016-04-06 Thread Mcnamara, John
> -Original Message- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jay Rolette > Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 1:41 PM > To: Yuanhan Liu > Cc: Arnon Warshavsky ; Trahe, Fiona > ; Thomas Monjalon ; > dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK name

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2016-04-06 Thread Ananyev, Konstantin
> -Original Message- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Panu Matilainen > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 1:08 PM > To: Yuanhan Liu; Arnon Warshavsky > Cc: Trahe, Fiona; Thomas Monjalon; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK namespace >

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2016-04-06 Thread Jay Rolette
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 05:31:22PM +0300, Arnon Warshavsky wrote: > > Googling rte functions or error codes usually takes you to dpdk dev email > > archive so I don't think it is that much difficult to figure out where > rte > > comes from. >

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2016-04-05 Thread Arnon Warshavsky
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Trahe, Fiona wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon > > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 2:57 PM > > To: dev at dpdk.org > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK n

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2016-04-05 Thread Thomas Monjalon
DPDK is going to be more popular in Linux distributions. It means people will have some DPDK files in their /usr/include and some DPDK libraries on their system. Let's imagine someone trying to compile an application which needs rte_ethdev.h. He has to figure out that this "rte header" is provided

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2016-04-05 Thread Trahe, Fiona
> -Original Message- > From: Trahe, Fiona > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 3:13 PM > To: Thomas Monjalon; dev at dpdk.org > Cc: Trahe, Fiona > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] DPDK namespace > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: dev [mailto:dev-b

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2016-04-05 Thread Trahe, Fiona
> -Original Message- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2016 2:57 PM > To: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: [dpdk-dev] DPDK namespace > > DPDK is going to be more popular in Linux distributions. > It mea