Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] dpdk: enhance EXPERIMENTAL api tagging

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

31/01/2018 13:18, Neil Horman:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 05:15:01PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 30/01/2018 16:54, Neil Horman:
> > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:46:27PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > 22/01/2018 02:48, Neil Horman:
> > > > > v5 Changes
> > > > > * Clean ups suggested by Thomas
> > > > 
> > > > There were a lot of new functions to tag when rebasing this v5.
> > > > Rebased and applied, thanks.
> > > > 
> > > Sorry, not clear what you mean by this.   Are you saying that there were several
> > > new experimental API's added recently that my initial set of tags missed?  If
> > > so, thanks for doing that.  I will also be sending another patch set soon, to
> > > reconcile API's that are documented as experimental but not listed in the
> > > version map as such
> > 
> > I meant that I have applied a lot of new experimental functions
> > after you sent the v5.
> > So I had to add the tag and CFLAGS for these new functions.
> > Usual rebase work.
> > 
> Understood, thank you.
> 
> > About reconciling experimental functions and map,
> > we should also consider upgrading some functions to non-experimental.
> > 
> I figured if I were to just do a reconcilliation of everything that is currently
> documented as experimental, that would be the impetus for their authors to yell
> at me about their not actually being experimental anymore, and I could fix that
> up in subsequent versions :)

OK, sounds like a plan.