On Jan 31, 2017, at 3:42 AM, Pascal Mazon [off-list ref] wrote:

dev->data->name contains "net_tap", the device driver name.
dev->data->dev_private->name contains the actual iface name,
e.g. "dtap0".

In tun_alloc() especially, we want to use the latter. Otherwise the
netdevice would be wrongly named "net_tap". Furthermore, creating
several tap vdev would point to the same netdevice.

In any case, it must to be consistent with the tun_alloc() call in
eth_dev_tap_create().

Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <redacted>
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Acked by Keith Wiles [off-list ref] for the series 1-6

Regards,
Keith