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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/20] DPDK PMD for ThunderX NIC device
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:22:55 +0100
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 06:13:21PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> 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.

Are you upstreaming kernel modules for this device? If so, what is the Linux
kernel module-name for this device going to be, as perhaps that can help us
here?

Regards,
/Bruce