Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] meter: move RFC4115 trTCM APIs as none experimental

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 1/16/2020 11:54 AM, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:25:06PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 2:08 PM Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Moved RFC4115 APIs to none experimental as they have been there
>>> since 19.02. Also, these APIs are the same as the none RFC4115 APIs.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>
>>
>> There is a discussion on the OVS ml at the moment to get these symbols
>> in the stable ABI for 19.11.
>> I want to understand how this would be done.
>>
>> - I take this patch in 20.02, these symbols are added in the 20.0.1 ABI.
>> On the other hand, the 19.11 release maintains the 20.0 ABI.
>>
>> Does it mean the backport adds these symbols with the 20.0 version in
>> the 19.11 branch?
>> Or is 20.0.1 version acceptable / a thing we want?
>>
>>
>> - These symbol already existed in the 20.0 ABI, versioned as EXPERIMENTAL.
>> We can go and remove these entries since we are not bound to preserve
>> the experimental APIs.
>> But, on the other hand, nothing should prevent us from keeping some
>> aliases so that the symbols versioned EXPERIMENTAL are still available
>> to existing users.
>>
> I would say that choice is up to you.  If you want to alias them to be nice to
> prior users, thats fine by me. But experimental means experimental, and so users
> have to be prepared to rebuild when things change, even if that change is
> changing the version from experimental to a concrete version.
> 

I would prefer to keep the alias and don't break the existing users, specially
for the case experimental API is becoming mature without change.