On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 06:13:21PM +0530, 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.
Are you upstreaming kernel modules for this device? If so, what is the Linux kernel module-name for this device going to be, as perhaps that can help us here? Regards, /Bruce
