From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Fix build issues with CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 22:30:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141004023007.GA20204@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141003165240.65e174ea@urahara>
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 04:52:40PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 07:28:33 -0400
> Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>
> > I.e. you can ship your pmd's
> > pacakged separately from your core
>
> I was hoping only the application API would be "stable"
> As we know from Linux kernel, internal API's will never remain stable.
>
None of the API's are stable. My only hope with the ABI series I've posted is
to keep the interfaces stable for a release beyond the next time they change, so
that application developers aren't consistently caught off guard if they don't
synchronize with the DPDK release schedule.
I know the kernel API's are constantly changing, but this isn't the kernel,
its a user space library. Theres nothing that prevents a third party from
writing a pmd to interface to the ethdev library, which is no different from any
other user space library. If the DPDK wants to get packaged like other
libraries in distributions, it needs to provide stability assurances like other
libraries.
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-04 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-02 15:56 Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-02 15:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] Link combined shared library using CC Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-02 15:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] Do not generate individual libs when configured with RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-02 20:00 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-02 15:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] Link apps only against combined lib or individual libs, not both Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-02 15:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] Cleanup Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-02 17:26 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Fix build issues with CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS=y Neil Horman
2014-10-02 20:04 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-02 20:24 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-02 21:10 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-03 0:52 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-03 10:31 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-03 11:28 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-03 23:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-10-04 2:30 ` Neil Horman [this message]
2014-10-03 7:15 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-03 8:10 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-03 8:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-03 11:32 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-03 18:17 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-03 19:15 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-03 21:21 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-06 14:45 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-03 18:13 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-03 18:00 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-06 10:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] Update build process Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-06 10:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] Link combined shared library using CC Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-06 10:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] Link apps only against single/combined library Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-06 10:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] Update library build process Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-06 20:46 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-07 9:55 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-08 22:36 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-09 9:44 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-08 15:38 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-06 10:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] Link apps/DSOs against EXECENV_LDLIBS with --as-needed Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-08 15:38 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-09 9:23 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-06 14:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] Update build process Neil Horman
2014-10-06 15:01 ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-06 16:05 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-09 13:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] Update libs " Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-09 13:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] Link combined shared library using CC Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-09 13:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/6] Link apps only against single/combined library Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-09 13:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] Remove CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS and related Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-09 13:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] Update library build process Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-09 13:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] Avoid duplicated code Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-09 13:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] Link apps/DSOs against EXECENV_LDLIBS with --as-needed Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2014-10-13 16:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] Update libs build process Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
2014-10-21 9:43 ` Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
2014-10-22 16:14 ` Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
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