On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:26:22PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon
[off-list ref] wrote:

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2016-10-18 21:06, Yuanhan Liu:

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:50:16PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:

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From my understanding this is a massive API breakage. This forces all

existing users of the virtual PMDs to change with zero benefit. Even
if that isn't enough it also makes it impossible to switch between
releases by recompiling.

Can we please revert these changes and work on some aliasing support
for the PMDs to fix it long term?

+1. Aliasing is also something I would suggest before making such renames.

It is a brutal change, yes.
It was announced in 16.07 release notes though.

"But the plans were on display ..." (HHGTTG)

Yes, 16.07, better known as the "Beware of the leopard" release of DPDK.
:-)

/Bruce