On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote: > 2016-10-18 21:06, Yuanhan Liu: >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:50:16PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: >> > >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) > We can try to make this change more progressive by keeping old names > as aliases for some time. > Is there a volunteer to work on vdev names aliases, > with the target of integrating them in RC2 or RC3? > I'll give it a try ...