Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] more replacement of zero length array

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 8:36 AM David Marchand
<david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I'm okay with the change being merged but if there is concern I can drop
> > this patch from the series.
>
> At least, we can't merge it in the current form.
>
> If libabigail gets a fix quickly, DPDK CI will still need a released version.
> So for this patch to be merged now, we need a libabigail suppression rule.
> I don't see a way to precisely waive this issue, so my suggestion is
> to silence any change on the concerned structure here (which should be
> ok, as the pipeline library data struct have been super stable for a
> couple of years).
> Something like:
>
> $ git diff
> diff --git a/devtools/libabigail.abignore b/devtools/libabigail.abignore
> index 21b8cd6113..d667157909 100644
> --- a/devtools/libabigail.abignore
> +++ b/devtools/libabigail.abignore
> @@ -33,3 +33,5 @@
>  ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>  ; Temporary exceptions till next major ABI version ;
>  ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> +[suppress_type]
> +       name = rte_pipeline_table_entry

Dodji confirmed the issue in libabigail and prepared a fix.

DPDK still needs a suppression rule (like the one proposed above) if
we want to merge this change before the libabigail fix makes it to all
distribs.
Please resubmit this series with my proposal and a comment pointing at
libabigail bz squashed in patch 4.


-- 
David Marchand