Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] vhost: introduce rte_vhost_vring_call()

[Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 09:17:32AM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> >>Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> >
> > From 3.2. Managing ABI updates, General Guidelines:
> >
> >   New APIs will be marked as experimental for at least one release to
> >   allow any issues found by users of the new API to be fixed quickly.
> >
> >http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.html
> >
> >I'm new to DPDK so I followed this guideline strictly and expect the
> >maintainers to mark the API stable at some point in the future when they
> >are happy with it.  Maybe this guideline isn't followed strictly for
> >librte_vhost?
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, it seems it is not strictly followed for
> librte_vhost & other libs. Let's keep it experimental for the coming
> release.

IIRC, it's a new guideline added recently (people were talking about
that in last year's DPDK user event after all).

And my understanding is, for a new (big set of) APIs, it's good to
make them experimental, as normally, it's not an easy task to make
a big stuff right in one time.

For this one, which is simple and straightforward, I don't see a
strong need to mark it as experimental.

Thus I have removed it (while apply). If anyone has objections,
let me know.

Thanks.

	--yliu