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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, david.marchand@redhat.com, bluca@debian.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 13/14] lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:42:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5661412.zh6Ro3QZ6x@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210401115009.1063844-14-bruce.richardson@intel.com>

01/04/2021 13:50, Bruce Richardson:
> There is no reason for the DPDK libraries to all have 'librte_' prefix on
> the directory names. This prefix makes the directory names longer and also
> makes it awkward to add features referring to individual libraries in the
> build - should the lib names be specified with or without the prefix.
> Therefore, we can just remove the library prefix and use the library's
> unique name as the directory name, i.e. 'eal' rather than 'librte_eal'

I agree and I wanted to do that for long, but never proposed.
There are 2 drawbacks:
	- git history (fixed by ignore-rev file as Lucas proposed)
	- backport

I think we need to propose a script in devtools to convert some patches
for backport, given the targetted version.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-01 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-01 11:49 [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 00/14] Build file update proposals Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 01/14] editorconfig: add entry for meson files Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 02/14] build: simplify library build file Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 03/14] build: correct indentation in list of libs Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 13:30   ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-01 14:01     ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 04/14] build: simplify the driver build configuration file Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 05/14] build: clean up driver list indentation Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 12:14   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-01 12:33     ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 12:40       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 06/14] build: reduce indentation in app build spec Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 13:32   ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-01 14:05     ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 07/14] build: reduce indentation in examples " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 08/14] build: change infrastructure file tabs to spaces Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 09/14] lib: change meson " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 10/14] drivers: " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 11/14] examples: " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 12/14] app: " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 13/14] lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 13:42   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-04-01 11:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 14/14] lib: allow disabling optional libraries Bruce Richardson
2021-04-01 12:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 00/14] Build file update proposals Andrew Rybchenko
2021-04-01 13:15   ` Luca Boccassi
2021-04-01 13:36 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-01 14:10   ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/14] Build file updates Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/14] build: simplify library build file Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/14] build: tidy up list of libraries to build Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/14] build: simplify the driver build configuration file Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/14] build: clean up driver lists Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/14] build: reduce indentation in app build spec Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/14] build: reduce indentation in examples " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/14] build: change infrastructure file tabs to spaces Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/14] lib: cleanup whitespace in meson build files Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/14] drivers: change meson file tabs to spaces Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/14] examples: " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/14] app: " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/14] editorconfig: add entry for meson files Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 13/14] lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names Bruce Richardson
2021-04-16 17:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 14/14] lib: allow disabling optional libraries Bruce Richardson
2021-04-18  8:45   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/14] Build file updates Xueming(Steven) Li
2021-04-19 13:06     ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-21 13:01       ` Xueming(Steven) Li
2021-04-21 15:52         ` Xueming(Steven) Li
2021-04-19  0:20   ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-19 13:09     ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-19 13:47       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-04-19 14:23         ` Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/16] " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/16] build: simplify library build file Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/16] build: tidy up list of libraries to build Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/16] build: simplify the driver build configuration file Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/16] build: clean up driver lists Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/16] build: reduce indentation in app build spec Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/16] build: reduce indentation in examples " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/16] build: change infrastructure file tabs to spaces Bruce Richardson
2021-04-27 19:16     ` David Christensen
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/16] lib: cleanup whitespace in meson build files Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/16] drivers: change meson file tabs to spaces Bruce Richardson
2021-04-21  1:48     ` Xu, Rosen
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/16] examples: " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/16] app: " Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 12/16] editorconfig: add entry for meson files Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 13/16] doc: add meson coding style section to contributors guide Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 14/16] lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names Bruce Richardson
2021-04-28 20:18     ` David Christensen
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 15/16] devtools: add script to ease backport of renamed files Bruce Richardson
2021-04-20 10:22   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 16/16] lib: allow disabling optional libraries Bruce Richardson
2021-04-21 12:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/16] Build file updates Thomas Monjalon

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