From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C2AA052A; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:41:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC322952; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:41:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com (wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com [64.147.123.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD972AB for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:41:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailout.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCCB6BF; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 06:41:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 03 Aug 2020 06:41:32 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=fm1; bh= uP6Ptj6T44L0PQCtagbAabchpcxuSGcE4rjDxy8iFHw=; b=apGyCgs6OrpUzuYu ERgsXoN4qX4oFZ10pHLAHd7JwDB2IqzZH3+iLRfFTDvko24/APWKuPdm0fmoWXia 27cEk9DMkGzBxWp4fXvDiAofO3jIyzTycyTJPdfpaUoCJi2se0RtehRfYXscFMDN nyzGCHBMnlf/eic/kINIHaoWOMaS9YDtEnbZQMQitHWFLr+c8IDcVqxjlLSc70Bx I5TC7AdmWZIrlxOUCgxMLmU7DpU0A4OMuMf2CJGzuZfX6VlWzUMNLPujHK/WQQ7W xjHX6NB816CM7YbyU5/sqbysghGwdvLwshPWmE7gR1U2RBm6gfuj4t31PiapRc9+ TBtZTA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=uP6Ptj6T44L0PQCtagbAabchpcxuSGcE4rjDxy8iF Hw=; b=Zgu6yDwCcIcas/P/uJXqQrlpB52rU3H99q4ZiZLLB/KO3xi+QPYyZyGGj N5RhSywCGPxcwj/X8FbbCwvqCeps86EFnBlMwT7KfSxxW2wEyo//+pC0Dx1BG7sj V7TVRwx9C5eIRm4EiYVinN3/nUYNdi42spCDvrLJZVA6SeelKfZ2W7+aPxIYHy2s 8VeU+80YX/W9WrJ5tdTTgTTnLTYNmPNPJwO2uqlhK37MEC8bCtWPvVlYydmmchvM nWWTLIoGQ6jf11l6/qYJ430BKf9UQMidDuZCISpYIhl0cO9+/Gcl3/n3Awl/Z2TN cxd2qbAt8SWFfiyy7bXbJLvWgKlTw== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduiedrjeeggdefudcutefuodetggdotefrodftvf curfhrohhfihhlvgemucfhrghsthforghilhdpqfgfvfdpuffrtefokffrpgfnqfghnecu uegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmdenuc fjughrpefhvffufffkjghfggfgtgesthhqredttddtudenucfhrhhomhepvfhhohhmrghs ucfoohhnjhgrlhhonhcuoehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvghtqeenucggtf frrghtthgvrhhnpeefgeffiefhfeettdfhvdfgteekffffudekvedtvedtvdfgveeuudev gedvgeegtdenucfkphepjeejrddufeegrddvtdefrddukeegnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuih iivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehmrghilhhfrhhomhepthhhohhmrghssehmohhnjhgrlhho nhdrnhgvth X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9443D306005F; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 06:41:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Morten =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Br=F8rup?= Cc: Olivier Matz , dev@dpdk.org Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:41:27 +0200 Message-ID: <4177727.sTLgoBS7LP@thomas> In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35C61182@smartserver.smartshare.dk> References: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35C6111E@smartserver.smartshare.dk> <20200731152444.GI5869@platinum> <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35C61182@smartserver.smartshare.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] The mbuf API needs some cleaning up X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 03/08/2020 10:42, Morten Br=F8rup: > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Matz > > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 5:25 PM > >=20 > > Hi Morten, > >=20 > > Thanks for the feedback. > >=20 > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:57:38AM +0200, Morten Br=F8rup wrote: > >=20 > > > The MBUF library exposes some macros and constants without the RTE_ > > prefix. I > > > propose cleaning up these, so better names get into the coming LTS > > release. > >=20 > > Yes, Thomas talked about it some time ago and he even drafted a patch > > to > > fix it. We can target 20.11 for the changes, but I think we'll have to > > keep a compat API until 21.11. > >=20 >=20 > Great, then I will back off. No need for multiple patches fixing the same= things. :-) Morten, you are very welcome to work on cleaning mbuf API. I think we must focus on introducing the new names, while keeping old names as alias for one year. The other things to do is to provide a devtools script to help converting applications to the new names.