[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 7/8] build: standardize component names and defines

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 04:05:53PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> As discussed on the dpdk-dev mailing list[1], we can make some easy
> improvements in standardizing the naming of the various components in DPDK,
> and their associated feature-enabled macros.
> 
> Following this patch, each library will have the name in format,
> 'librte_<name>.so', and the macro indicating that library is enabled in the
> build will have the form 'RTE_LIB_<NAME>'.
> 
> Similarly, for libraries, the equivalent name formats and macros are:
> 'librte_<class>_<name>.so' and 'RTE_<CLASS>_<NAME>', where class is the
> device type taken from the relevant driver subdirectory name, i.e. 'net',
> 'crypto' etc.
> 
> To avoid too many changes at once for end applications, the old macro names
> will still be provided in the build in this release, but will be removed
> subsequently.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> 
Also adding Luca's ack from v3: 

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>