On 6/8/2016 1:43 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:30:28PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote: >> On 6/7/2016 5:40 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote: >>> Jerin Jacob (20): >>> thunderx/nicvf/base: add hardware API for ThunderX nicvf inbuilt NIC >>> thunderx/nicvf: add pmd skeleton >>> thunderx/nicvf: add link status and link update support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add get_reg and get_reg_length support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add dev_configure support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add dev_infos_get support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add rx_queue_setup/release support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add tx_queue_setup/release support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add rss and reta query and update support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add mtu_set and promiscuous_enable support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add stats support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add single and multi segment tx functions >>> thunderx/nicvf: add single and multi segment rx functions >>> thunderx/nicvf: add dev_supported_ptypes_get and rx_queue_count >>> support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add rx queue start and stop support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add tx queue start and stop support >>> thunderx/nicvf: add device start,stop and close support >>> thunderx/config: set max numa node to two >>> thunderx/nicvf: updated driver documentation and release notes >>> maintainers: claim responsibility for the ThunderX nicvf PMD >>> >> >> Hi Jerin, >> >> In patch subject, as tag, other drivers are using only driver name, and >> Intel drivers also has "driver/base", since base code has some special >> case. For thunderx, what do you think about keeping subject as: >> "thunderx: ...." >> > > Hi Ferruh, > > We may add crypto or other builtin ThunderX HW accelerated block drivers > in future to DPDK. > So that is the reason why I thought of keeping the subject as thunderx/nicvf. > If you don't have any objection then I would like to keep it as > thunderx/nicvf or just nicvf. >
Ring has similar problem, but we are using same tag "ring:" for both ring_pmd and ring library. For this case perhaps we can use net/thunderx, crypto/thunderx ? I am not aware of any defined convention for the case. Thanks, ferruh
