From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>,
"nicolas.chautru@intel.com" <nicolas.chautru@intel.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"ferruh.yigit@intel.com" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
"trix@redhat.com" <trix@redhat.com>,
bluca@debian.org, ktraynor@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] baseband: fix drivers API
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 12:29:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3852206.azU2x7R5MW@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b075a8e-cf25-0dad-b638-88347adc6268@redhat.com>
07/10/2020 12:12, Maxime Coquelin:
> On 10/7/20 12:09 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 07/10/2020 10:22, Maxime Coquelin:
> >> On 10/6/20 9:42 PM, Akhil Goyal wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The series prefixes drivers APIs with rte_<drv_name>_ in
> >>>> order to avoid namespace pollution.
> >>>>
> >>>> These APIs are experimental, so no need to follow the
> >>>> deprecation process.
> >>>>
> >>> Added Fixes commit in patch description.
> >>
> >> Thanks for applying it to your tree.
> >>
> >> I did not add Fixes tag and Cc'ed stable@dpdk.org on purpose,
> >> because I thought it is was not a good idea to backport API changes,
> >> even if this is experimental it might be annoying for the user.
> >>
> >> Thomas, do you confirm?
> >
> > Absolutely: API must not change in a stable branch.
> >
> > If an API is changed, it must be in the release notes.
>
> Ok, even for experimental APIs? I thought not.
Yes, experimental means it can change in the main branch
without prior notice. But it must be noted when it's changed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-07 10:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-02 8:59 Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-02 8:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] baseband/fpga_5gnr_fec: fix API naming Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-03 15:26 ` Tom Rix
2020-10-05 7:11 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-05 7:28 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-02 8:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] baseband/fpga_lte_fec: " Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-03 15:31 ` Tom Rix
2020-10-06 19:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] baseband: fix drivers API Akhil Goyal
2020-10-07 8:22 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-07 10:09 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-07 10:12 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-07 10:29 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-10-07 10:52 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-07 11:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-07 11:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-10-07 12:05 ` Akhil Goyal
2020-10-07 12:19 ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-10-07 11:09 ` Maxime Coquelin
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