svn commit: r266423 - in head/sys: conf dev/i40e modules/i40e

[Jack Vogel]

If you don't like the name there's this wonderful feature of ifconfig

ifconfig i40e0 name eth0 (or whatever pleases you...)

Oh and Bruce, I did run into the string length issue, so with this driver
the queues
are all named 'q%d', I might go back and change the earlier drivers.

I found the 'too long' strings caused some really weird behavior with
vmstat once
you had 32 queues, btw.

Jack



On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 May 2014, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>  On 5/20/14, 11:14 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/20/14, 1:50 AM, Rui Paulo wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 18 May 2014, at 18:41, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On 5/19/14, 9:21 AM, Jack F Vogel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Author: jfv
>>>>>> Date: Mon May 19 01:21:02 2014
>>>>>> New Revision: 266423
>>>>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266423
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Log:
>>>>>>    This is the beta release of the driver for the new
>>>>>>    Intel 40G Ethernet Controller XL710 Family. This is
>>>>>>    the core driver, a VF driver called i40evf, will be
>>>>>>    following soon. Questions or comments to myself or
>>>>>>    my co-developer Eric Joyner. Cheers!
>>>>>>
>>>>> love the name..
>>>>>
>>>> Aesthetics aside, I think the name should be changed.  Network drivers
>>>> always used [a-z] for name and [0-9] for unit.  Can you find an example
>>>> where this is not true?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I just meant the XL (Roman Numeral 40) part..
>>>
>>
>> sorry to have caused this fuss jsut because I like the use of the common
>> "XL" name to (in this case) hint at 40.
>> the device name in netstat could be ixlgNNN  (intel 40gig) even if the
>> device is aimed at the 710 (and later 720 etc..)
>>
>
> Then the correct name is xlN, but unfortunately ;) wpaul already used up
> most
> of the 2-letter namespace (xl went in 1998).  ixl would be OK.
>
> Bruce
>