On 12/7/2016 7:38 PM, Keith Wiles wrote:
> The PMD allows for DPDK and the host to communicate using a raw
> device interface on the host and in the DPDK application. The device
> created is a Tap device with a L2 packet header.
>
> v10- Change the string name used to allow for multiple devices.
> v9 - Fix up the docs to use correct syntax
> v8 - Fix issue with tap_tx_queue_setup() not return zero on success.
> v7 - Reword the comment in common_base and fix the data->name issue
> v6 - fixed the checkpatch issues
> v5 - merge in changes from list review see related emails
> fixed many minor edits
> v4 - merge with latest driver changes
> v3 - fix includes by removing ifdef for other type besides Linux
> Fix the copyright notice in the Makefile
> v2 - merge all of the patches into one patch
> Fix a typo on naming the tap device
> Update the maintainers list
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wi...@intel.com>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 5 +
> config/common_base | 9 +
> config/common_linuxapp | 1 +
> doc/guides/nics/tap.rst | 136 ++++++
This is giving following warning [1], this file needs to be added into
doc/guides/nics/index.rst
[1]
doc/guides/nics/tap.rst:: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
> drivers/net/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/net/tap/Makefile | 57 +++
> drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c | 765
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/tap/rte_pmd_tap_version.map | 4 +
> mk/rte.app.mk | 1 +
> 9 files changed, 979 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/tap.rst
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/tap/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/tap/rte_pmd_tap_version.map
>
<...>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/rte_pmd_tap_version.map
> b/drivers/net/tap/rte_pmd_tap_version.map
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..61463bf
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/tap/rte_pmd_tap_version.map
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +DPDK_16.11 {
17.02
> +
> + local: *;
> +};
<...>
