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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Arnon Warshavsky <arnon@qwilt.com>
Cc: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, declan.doherty@intel.com,
	jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com,
	Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	ferruh.yigit@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: replace rte_panic instances to return an error value
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:21:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4227625.3KJ1syXLso@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKy9EB1nKQSaaeNSii___p01StFyoRmTbr7wm14CpsY_mZr7XA@mail.gmail.com>

21/03/2018 00:04, Arnon Warshavsky:
> >
> > You are talking about API, and I agree the old applications can keep
> > considering the functions as void.
> > But I was talking about ABI, meaning: can we use an old application
> > without recompiling and update only the DPDK (in .so file)?
> >
> >
> > You are right of course. Once again I mixed the two..
> I will modify accordingly

I don't know what needs to be modified.
I think the first step is to clearly identified the different kind
of changes by splitting your patch.
Then we will decide how to integrate them.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-20 21:28 Arnon Warshavsky
2018-03-20 22:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-20 22:42   ` Arnon Warshavsky
2018-03-20 22:49     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-20 23:04       ` Arnon Warshavsky
2018-03-21  8:21         ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-03-21  8:47           ` Arnon Warshavsky

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