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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] vhost: handle VHOST_USER_SET_LOG_BASE
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2015-12-02 15:53, Panu Matilainen:
> This (and other changes in patch 2 breaks the librte_vhost ABI again, so 
> you'd need to at least add a deprecation note to 2.2 to be able to do it 
> in 2.3 at all according to the ABI policy.
> 
> Perhaps a better option would be adding some padding to the structs now 
> for 2.2 since the vhost ABI is broken there anyway. That would at least 
> give a chance to keep it compatible from 2.2 to 2.3.

Please could you point where the vhost ABI is broken in 2.2?