Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove alias for virtual devices

2022-11-06 Thread Andrew Rybchenko
On 10/19/22 16:13, Bruce Richardson wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:26:11PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: I think this patch requires a techboard vote as it is dropping some user-facing naming. I think a better solution is to centralize the use of aliases. I've just posted a patch to this th

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove alias for virtual devices

2022-10-19 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:26:11PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > I think this patch requires a techboard vote > as it is dropping some user-facing naming. > I think a better solution is to centralize the use of aliases. I've just posted a patch to this thread to add the aliasing for net drivers

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove alias for virtual devices

2022-09-21 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:26:11PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > I think this patch requires a techboard vote > as it is dropping some user-facing naming. > +1 I personally am a little uncertain about dropping this support. It could be widely used, still, and removing it doesn't save us a huge a

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove alias for virtual devices

2022-09-21 Thread Ferruh Yigit
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

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove alias for virtual devices

2022-09-21 Thread Thomas Monjalon
I think this patch requires a techboard vote as it is dropping some user-facing naming. 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-testpm