Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] meter: move RFC4115 trTCM APIs as none experimental

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:25:06PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 2:08 PM Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Moved RFC4115 APIs to none experimental as they have been there
> > since 19.02. Also, these APIs are the same as the none RFC4115 APIs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
> 
> There is a discussion on the OVS ml at the moment to get these symbols
> in the stable ABI for 19.11.
> I want to understand how this would be done.
> 
> - I take this patch in 20.02, these symbols are added in the 20.0.1 ABI.
> On the other hand, the 19.11 release maintains the 20.0 ABI.
> 
> Does it mean the backport adds these symbols with the 20.0 version in
> the 19.11 branch?
> Or is 20.0.1 version acceptable / a thing we want?
> 
> 
> - These symbol already existed in the 20.0 ABI, versioned as EXPERIMENTAL.
> We can go and remove these entries since we are not bound to preserve
> the experimental APIs.
> But, on the other hand, nothing should prevent us from keeping some
> aliases so that the symbols versioned EXPERIMENTAL are still available
> to existing users.
> 
I would say that choice is up to you.  If you want to alias them to be nice to
prior users, thats fine by me. But experimental means experimental, and so users
have to be prepared to rebuild when things change, even if that change is
changing the version from experimental to a concrete version.

Neil

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> David Marchand
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