[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/20] DPDK PMD for ThunderX NIC device

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-06-08 19:02, Jerin Jacob:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 02:22:55PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > 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:
> > > > 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?
> 
> Yes, Kernel module has been upstreamed.
> the commit log in linux kernel is "net: thunderx: ......."

If you want to modify the conventions, we just need to agree on a patch
modifying the guidelines.
We can think about the proposal of Ferruh to use net/ and crypto/ prefixes.

The most important is to have something short and easy to parse when
quick browsing the git history.