Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] ethdev: expand size of eth_dev_name in next release

2016-12-07 18:27, Stephen Hemminger: > In order to support Hyper-V in a direct fashion, the eth_dev name > needs to be expanded. The standard format for text representation of GUID > is 36 bytes (plus null). See uuid_unparse(3). [...] > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_02.rst > +++ b/doc/guid

[dpdk-dev] [RFC] ethdev: expand size of eth_dev_name in next release

This came up while revising earlier work on Hyper-V. The current versions of DPDK does not have enough space to support a logical device name in VMBUS. The kernel exposes the VMBUS devices by GUID in a manner similar to how PCI is expressed with domain:host:function notation. In order to support H