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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: santosh <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mempool: add notice to change mempool API/ABI
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20/07/2017 12:27, santosh:
> On Thursday 20 July 2017 02:16 PM, Olivier Matz wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:12:31 +0000, Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> >> [PATCH] mempool: add notice to change mempool API/ABI
> > I think the usual titles for these notices are more:
> >
> > doc: announce API/ABI changes for mempool
> 
> in v2.
> 
> > Ideally, the title should describe more precisely the kind of
> > changes. In that particular case, it looks quite difficult,
> > so just saying "mempool" looks okay. Maybe Thomas will prefer
> > one entry per change, I don't know.
> >
> Thomas, Are you fine with approach?

Yes it is OK.
The important words are "announce", "API" and "mempool".
As you are breaking the API, no need to be explicit about ABI.