[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] ethdev: use device name from device structure
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jul 6 00:11:21 CEST 2017
09/06/2017 20:36, Ferruh Yigit:
> Device name resides in two different locations, in rte_device->name and
> in ethernet device private data.
>
> For now, the copy in the ethernet device private data is required for
> multi process support, the name is the how secondary process finds about
> primary process device.
>
> But in the ethdev library some eth_dev->data->name usage can be
> converted to rte_device->name.
>
> This patch updates ethdev to use rte_device->name when possible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
Series applied, thanks
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