On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:26:22PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon > <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote: > > 2016-10-18 21:06, Yuanhan Liu: > >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:50:16PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: > >> > >From my understanding this is a massive API breakage. This forces all > >> > existing users of the virtual PMDs to change with zero benefit. Even > >> > if that isn't enough it also makes it impossible to switch between > >> > releases by recompiling. > >> > > >> > Can we please revert these changes and work on some aliasing support > >> > for the PMDs to fix it long term? > >> > >> +1. Aliasing is also something I would suggest before making such renames. > > > > It is a brutal change, yes. > > It was announced in 16.07 release notes though. > > > > "But the plans were on display ..." (HHGTTG) > Yes, 16.07, better known as the "Beware of the leopard" release of DPDK. :-)
/Bruce
