From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>,
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>,
Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
Andrzej Ostruszka <amo@semihalf.com>,
Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] abi: provide experimental alias of API for old apps
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 07:53:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200516115331.GA449981@hmswarspite.think-freely.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1589554922-4549-1-git-send-email-mdr@ashroe.eu>
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 04:01:53PM +0100, Ray Kinsella wrote:
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>
> On v20.02 some APIs matured and symbols moved from EXPERIMENTAL to
> DPDK_20.0.1 block.
>
> This had the affect of breaking the applications that were using these
> APIs on v19.11. Although there is no modification of the APIs and the
> action is positive and matures the APIs, the affect can be negative to
> applications.
>
> When a maintainer is promoting an API to become part of the next major
> ABI version by removing the experimental tag. The maintainer may
> choose to offer an alias to the experimental tag, to prevent these
> breakages in future.
>
> The following changes are made to enabling aliasing:
>
> Updated to the abi policy and abi versioning documents.
>
> Created VERSION_SYMBOL_EXPERIMENTAL helper macro.
>
> Updated the 'check-symbols.sh' buildtool, which was complaining that the
> symbol is in EXPERIMENTAL tag in .map file but it is not in the
> .experimental section (__rte_experimental tag is missing).
> Updated tool in a way it won't complain if the symbol in the
> EXPERIMENTAL tag duplicated in some other block in .map file (versioned)
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
> ---
>
> This patch depends on "doc: fix references to bind_default_symbol".
> https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69850/
>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> Cc: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Cc: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>
> Cc: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrzej Ostruszka <amo@semihalf.com>
> Cc: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
> CC: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
>
> v2:
> * Commit log updated
>
> v3:
> * added suggested comment to VERSION_SYMBOL_EXPERIMENTAL macro
>
> v4:
> * update script name in commit log, remove empty line
>
> v5:
> * incorporate policy and version doc changes
> * remove changes to librte_meter
>
> v6:
> * clarified dependency chain includes "doc: fix references to bind_default_symbol".
>
> buildtools/check-symbols.sh | 3 +-
> doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst | 10 ++
> doc/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.rst | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> lib/librte_eal/include/rte_function_versioning.h | 9 ++
> 4 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-16 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-29 12:29 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] meter: fix ABI break due to experimental tag removal Ferruh Yigit
2020-01-29 14:46 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-01-29 14:57 ` Andrzej Ostruszka
2020-01-29 16:25 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-01-29 16:30 ` Andrzej Ostruszka
2020-01-29 16:40 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-01-29 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-01-29 17:49 ` Andrzej Ostruszka
2020-01-30 12:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-01-30 12:57 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-01-30 14:17 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-01-30 14:21 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-01-30 15:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-01-30 16:04 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-01-30 16:15 ` Eelco Chaudron
2020-01-30 20:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-03 11:10 ` Eelco Chaudron
2020-01-31 9:25 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-13 12:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] meter: provide experimental alias of API for old apps Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-13 16:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-13 17:37 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-13 18:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-14 8:44 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-14 11:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-14 11:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-14 15:10 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-14 15:32 ` David Marchand
2020-05-14 15:56 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-14 16:07 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-14 16:30 ` David Marchand
2020-05-14 16:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-15 13:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-15 14:41 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-15 15:03 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-15 14:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] abi: " Ray Kinsella
2020-05-15 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Ray Kinsella
2020-05-16 11:53 ` Neil Horman [this message]
2020-05-18 17:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 17:34 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-18 17:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 18:32 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-19 14:13 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-19 14:14 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-17 19:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] meter: " Dumitrescu, Cristian
2020-05-18 6:29 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 9:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 9:30 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 10:46 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 11:18 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2020-05-18 11:49 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 11:48 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 12:13 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 13:06 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-19 12:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-19 13:26 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2020-05-19 14:24 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-19 14:22 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-02 18:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC] meter: fix ABI break due to experimental tag removal Neil Horman
2020-02-03 12:53 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-04 12:02 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-05 10:04 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-02-05 11:32 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-13 17:40 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-14 2:40 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-14 11:36 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-02-14 20:48 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-14 21:52 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-02-15 13:43 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-17 14:23 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-17 15:37 ` Neil Horman
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