[dpdk-dev] RFC - increasing the size of ethenet device name

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Jul 5 19:58:07 CEST 2017


In order to support VMBUS, the ethernet device name needs to be increased.
What would be good timing; vmbus support will be in 17.11.
Either break ABI now, and vmbus won't have to do it later.
Or wait and make it part of of VMBUS patches?


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