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> 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> 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 > _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
