Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] [PATCH v3 0/3] Experimental/internal libraries cleanup

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

06/07/2020 10:02, Bruce Richardson:
> On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:55:41PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > +Cc maintainers of the problematic libraries:
> > 	- librte_fib
> > 	- librte_rib
> > 	- librte_gro
> > 	- librte_member
> > 	- librte_rawdev
> > 
> > 26/06/2020 10:16, David Marchand:
> > > Following discussions on the mailing list and the 05/20 TB meeting, here
> > > is a series that drops the special versioning for non stable libraries.
> > > 
> > > Two notes:
> > > 
> > > - RIB/FIB library is not referenced in the API doxygen index, is this
> > >   intentional?
> > 
> > Vladimir please, could you fix the miss in the doxygen index?
> > 
> > > - I inspected MAINTAINERS: librte_gro, librte_member and librte_rawdev are
> > >   announced as experimental while their functions are part of the 20
> > >   stable ABI (in .map files + no __rte_experimental marking).
> > >   Their fate must be discussed.
> > 
> > I would suggest removing EXPERIMENTAL flag for gro, member and rawdev.
> > They are probably already considered stable for a lot of users.
> > Maintainers, are you OK to follow the ABI compatibility rules
> > for these libraries? Do you feel these libraries are mature enough?
> >
> 
> I think things being added to the official ABI is good. For these, I wonder
> if waiting till the 20.11 release is the best time to officially mark them
> as stable, rather than doing so now? 

They are already not marked as experimental symbols...
I think we should remove confusion in the MAINTAINERS file.