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From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/20] DPDK PMD for ThunderX NIC device
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 18:13:21 +0530
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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.

> Thanks,
> ferruh