From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, huawei.xie@intel.com,
Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: ABI/API change announcement due to refactor
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:58:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1844725.9Y7TDca69S@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57060840.5040503@redhat.com>
2016-04-07 10:12, Panu Matilainen:
> On 04/06/2016 09:53 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > +* A librte_vhost public structures refactor is planned for DPDK 16.07
> > + that requires both ABI and API change.
> > + The proposed refactor would expose DPDK vhost dev to applications as
> > + a handle, like the way kernel exposes an fd to user for locating a
> > + specific file, and to keep all major structures internally, so that
> > + we are likely to be free from ABI violations in future.
>
> Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
>
> I applaud the initiative, public structs are by far the worst offender
> when trying to maintain a stable ABI because they're so hard to
> correctly version that hardly anybody besides glibc bothers.
Yes, nice cleanup to do.
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-10 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-06 6:53 Yuanhan Liu
2016-04-07 7:12 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-04-10 9:58 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-04-10 10:02 ` Thomas Monjalon
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