Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH] doc: announce library refactor for ABI improvement

[Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>]

On 8/26/21 2:04 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:46:35AM +0000, Akhil Goyal wrote:
>>> Target is to reduce the public interface surface to improve the ABI
>>> stability and this is preparation for the longer term stable ABI
>>> support.
>>>
>>> Mainly device abstraction layer libraries are impacted because they have
>>> two interfaces, one is public interface to the applications and other is
>>> internal interface to the drivers. Some driver/internal interface
>>> structures/symbols are in the public interface by mistake, this work is
>>> to clean them.
>>> Also some libraries has 'static inline' functions for performance
>>> reasons (like ones in the ethdev), this work plans to split the
>>> structures and hide the part that is not used by inline functions.
>>>
>>> The need of the work for the stable ABI already discussed and planned by
>>> the DPDK technical board:
>>> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/214662.html
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>>> ---
>> Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> 

Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>