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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] doc: announce renaming of ethdev library
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2016-07-28 11:29, Christian Ehrhardt:
> Just curious, do we already know by looking ahead if ethdev will get an ABI
> bump anyway?
> So will the transition be:
> a) libethdev4 -> librte_ethdev5
> b)libethdev4 -> librte_ethdev4
> If it is b) would/should one provide a compat symlink then in your Opinion?

Good point.
We'll make a symlink if the version stay the same.
Maybe it will be bumped because of a rework of the hotplug API.