[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] net/tap: fixes and cleanups

Wiles, Keith keith.wiles at intel.com
Fri Jan 11 20:47:57 CET 2019



> On Jan 11, 2019, at 12:06 PM, Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> 
> The tap device (used by vdev_netvsc on Azure) has a bug that
> prevents it working with primary/secondary process model because
> the device name generation assumed a single process.  The fix for
> this is to have the kernel assign the device name (patch #5).
> 
> While investigating this, found a number of other small issues
> that should be cleaned up as well.
> 
> Stephen Hemminger (6):
>  net/tap: use strlcpy for interface name
>  net/tap: allow full length names
>  net/tap: check interface name in kvargs
>  net/tap: lower the priority of log messages
>  net/tap: let kernel choose tun device name
>  net/tap: get rid of global tuntap_name
> 
> drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

All of these look good except for a few comments. The styling changes I think need to be address, but if everyone is find with it then I  will be OK after a few more drinks.

Acked-by Keith Wiles <keith.wiles at intel.com>

Regards,
Keith



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