01/04/2021 13:50, Bruce Richardson:
> There is no reason for the DPDK libraries to all have 'librte_' prefix on
> the directory names. This prefix makes the directory names longer and also
> makes it awkward to add features referring to individual libraries in the
> build - should the lib names be specified with or without the prefix.
> Therefore, we can just remove the library prefix and use the library's
> unique name as the directory name, i.e. 'eal' rather than 'librte_eal'
I agree and I wanted to do that for long, but never proposed.
There are 2 drawbacks:
- git history (fixed by ignore-rev file as Lucas proposed)
- backport
I think we need to propose a script in devtools to convert some patches
for backport, given the targetted version.
