From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
"Kinsella, Ray" <mdr@ashroe.eu>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: mark internal symbols in ethdev
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:17:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2016df0f-6d34-5d07-3538-c0b2b94fa1f3@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7282632.B7jfezQ52p@thomas>
On 7/10/2020 3:20 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 26/06/2020 10:49, Kinsella, Ray:
>> On 23/06/2020 14:49, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>>> The APIs are marked in the doxygen comment but better to mark the
>>> symbols too. This is planned for v20.11 release.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>>> ---
>>> +* ethdev: Some internal APIs for driver usage are exported in the .map file.
>>> + Now DPDK has ``__rte_internal`` marker so we can mark internal APIs and move
>>> + them to the INTERNAL block in .map. Although these APIs are internal it will
>>> + break the ABI checks, that is why change is planned for 20.11.
>>> + The list of internal APIs are mainly ones listed in ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``.
>>> +
>>
>> Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
>>
>> A bunch of other folks have already annotated "internal" APIs, and added entries to
>> libabigail.abignore to suppress warnings. If you are 100% certain these are never used
>> by end applications, you could do likewise.
>>
>> That said, depreciation notice and completing in 20.11 is definitely the better approach.
>> See https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/devtools/libabigail.abignore#n53
>
> I agree we can wait 20.11.
>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-10 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-23 13:49 Ferruh Yigit
2020-06-23 14:29 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-06-26 8:49 ` Kinsella, Ray
2020-07-10 14:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-10 16:17 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
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