On 5/20/14, 9:08 AM, Jack Vogel wrote: > If you don't like the name there's this wonderful feature of ifconfig > > ifconfig i40e0 name eth0 (or whatever pleases you...) > > Oh and Bruce, I did run into the string length issue, so with this driver > the queues > are all named 'q%d', I might go back and change the earlier drivers. > > I found the 'too long' strings caused some really weird behavior with > vmstat once > you had 32 queues, btw. > > Jack > > > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Bruce Evans <b...@optusnet.com.au > <mailto:b...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote: > > On Tue, 20 May 2014, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On 5/20/14, 11:14 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On 5/20/14, 1:50 AM, Rui Paulo wrote: > > On 18 May 2014, at 18:41, Julian Elischer > <jul...@freebsd.org <mailto:jul...@freebsd.org>> wrote: > > On 5/19/14, 9:21 AM, Jack F Vogel wrote: > > Author: jfv > Date: Mon May 19 01:21:02 2014 > New Revision: 266423 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266423 > > Log: > This is the beta release of the driver for the new > Intel 40G Ethernet Controller XL710 Family. > This is > the core driver, a VF driver called i40evf, > will be > following soon. Questions or comments to myself or > my co-developer Eric Joyner. Cheers! > > love the name.. > > Aesthetics aside, I think the name should be changed. > Network drivers always used [a-z] for name and [0-9] for > unit. Can you find an example where this is not true? > > > I just meant the XL (Roman Numeral 40) part.. > > > sorry to have caused this fuss jsut because I like the use of the > common "XL" name to (in this case) hint at 40. > the device name in netstat could be ixlgNNN (intel 40gig) even > if the device is aimed at the 710 (and later 720 etc..) > > > Then the correct name is xlN, but unfortunately ;) wpaul already used > up most > of the 2-letter namespace (xl went in 1998). ixl would be OK. > > Bruce > > I'm pretty sure the original naming would have caused drama at work with their monitoring system - I seem to recall that they "know" that interface names are alpha chars followed by an interface instance number. I suspect that that might exclude
I would much rather see something like ixlN -Peter -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
