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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] version: switch to year/month version
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2016-02-10 14:33, John McNamara:
>  /**
>   * Major version number i.e. the x in x.y.z
>   */
> -#define RTE_VER_MAJOR 2
> +#define RTE_VER_MAJOR 16
>  
>  /**
>   * Minor version number i.e. the y in x.y.z
>   */
> -#define RTE_VER_MINOR 3
> +#define RTE_VER_MINOR 4
>

I liked the idea of Bruce of renaming these constants to
*_YEAR and *_MONTH.
I also think RTE_VER_PATCH_LEVEL should be RTE_VER_MINOR.
And maybe that RTE_VER_PATCH_RELEASE should be RTE_VER_RELEASE.

It shouldn't hurt applications as they must use RTE_VERSION
and rte_version().

Opinions?