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

[Peter Wemm]

On 5/20/14, 9:08 AM, Jack Vogel wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>
>
I'm pretty sure the original naming would have caused drama at work with
their monitoring system - I seem to recall that they "know" that interface
names are alpha chars followed by an interface instance number.  I suspect
that that might exclude

I would much rather see something like ixlN

-Peter
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