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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, huawei.xie@intel.com,
	Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: ABI/API change announcement due to refactor
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:02:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3754874.Gs70IoFubP@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1844725.9Y7TDca69S@xps13>

> > > +* A librte_vhost public structures refactor is planned for DPDK 16.07
> > > +  that requires both ABI and API change.
> > > +  The proposed refactor would expose DPDK vhost dev to applications as
> > > +  a handle, like the way kernel exposes an fd to user for locating a
> > > +  specific file, and to keep all major structures internally, so that
> > > +  we are likely to be free from ABI violations in future.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
> > 
> > I applaud the initiative, public structs are by far the worst offender 
> > when trying to maintain a stable ABI because they're so hard to 
> > correctly version that hardly anybody besides glibc bothers.
> 
> Yes, nice cleanup to do.
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>

Applied, thanks

      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-10 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-06  6:53 Yuanhan Liu
2016-04-07  7:12 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-04-10  9:58   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-04-10 10:02     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

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