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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Dumitrescu, Cristian" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>, "Zhang,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce ABI change of
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2016-07-27 10:08, Dumitrescu, Cristian:
> As Thomas mentioned, today is probably the last day to discuss ABI changes. This one is pretty small and straightforward, any issues with it?
> 
> Panu had a concern that the change from "char *" to "const char *" is too small to be regarded as ABI breakage and we should simply go ahead and do it. My conservative proposal was to put a notice anyway.
> 
> Nonetheless, what I would like to get from Thomas and Panu is a path forward for this now:
> a) If we agree to consider this an ABI change, please merge the notice for 16.7;

Panu was noticing 3 things (and I agree with them):
- it is an API change
- they can be grouped in only one list item
- it is better to wait having more changes to break an API

About the third point, in this specific case, I think it is acceptable because:
- it should not break the ABI
- the impact of the API change is really small
- I'm not sure the packet framework should be considered as a DPDK API.

> b) If we agree this is too small for an ABI change, please let us agree now
> to accept our quick patch for 16.11 for this change.

For an API deprecation notice (reworded),
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>


> > -----Original Message-----
> > The ABI changes are planned for rte_port_source_params and
> > rte_port_sink_params, which will be supported from release 16.11. Here
> > announces that ABI changes in detail.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Fan Zhang <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>
> > ---
> > +* ABI will change for rte_port_source_params struct. The member
> > file_name
> > +  data type will be changed from char * to const char *. This change targets
> > +  release 16.11
> > +
> > +* ABI will change for rte_port_sink_params struct. The member file_name
> > +  data type will be changed from char * to const char *. This change targets
> > +  release 16.11