Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] devtools: handle section suppression

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 5:18 PM Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 04:34:18PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > Even if rare, the check script should handle removing a section.
> >
> > Fixes: 4bec48184e33 ("devtools: add checks for ABI symbol addition")
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  devtools/check-symbol-change.sh | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/devtools/check-symbol-change.sh
> b/devtools/check-symbol-change.sh
> > index 8da7650..d5fad04 100755
> > --- a/devtools/check-symbol-change.sh
> > +++ b/devtools/check-symbol-change.sh
> > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ build_map_changes()
> >               # symbol rule below
> >               /^.*{/ {
> >                       gsub("+", "");
> > +                     gsub("-", "");
> >                       if (in_map == 1) {
> >                               sec=$(NF-1); in_sec=1;
> >                       }
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
> >
> >
> Don't you also need to add some logic in the symbol detection match rule to
> print an appropriate indicator that a symbol is being removed?  With just
> this
> change, you will note that you are parsing a section, but you will never
> trigger
> a symbol match
>

I do remember seeing a warning about the "-EXPERIMENTAL" section.
And this is why I added this.
But since then I reorganised my series and eliminated some parts... so you
are most likely right.
I will double check and repost.


-- 
David Marchand