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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org, declan.doherty@intel.com,
	Boris Pismenny <borisp@mellanox.com>,
	Aviad Yehezkel <aviadye@mellanox.com>,
	Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] ethdev: fix port id storage
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:29:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9933117.qs9VA5frF5@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc23d7b3-91f6-7196-469c-c72e7ab7c0a5@intel.com>

18/01/2018 11:15, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 1/17/2018 10:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 17/01/2018 23:09, Thomas Monjalon:
> >> 17/01/2018 22:57, Ferruh Yigit:
> >>> port_id is now 16bits, update function parameter according.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: 4c270218aa26 ("ethdev: support security APIs")
> >>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> >>> Cc: declan.doherty@intel.com
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> >>> Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
> >>
> >> Obviously,
> >> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > 
> > Not so obvious actually.
> > It is a good fix, but an API change.
> 
> It is more like API fix.
> While whole library is using 16bits for port_id, I think we shouldn't deliver
> release with this specific API uses 8bits.
> 
> I am for getting this because what it does is wrong.
> 
> > This function was not declared experimental.
> > It must wait 18.05.

I really want to keep API stable in 18.02.
We have to keep this mistake for one more release.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-18 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20171201022957.64329-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2017-12-01  2:29 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/7] " Ferruh Yigit
2017-12-01  9:01   ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-12-01 23:52   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-09 16:23 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 1/6] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-09 16:23   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 2/6] ethdev: separate driver APIs Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-09 19:19     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-01-09 16:23   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 3/6] ethdev: separate internal structures into own header Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-09 16:23   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 4/6] ethdev: reorder inline functions Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-09 16:23   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 5/6] ethdev: rename function parameter for consistency Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-09 16:23   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 6/6] ethdev: return named opaque type instead of void pointer Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-09 18:55     ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-09 18:58     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-17 21:57   ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/6] ethdev: fix port id storage Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-17 21:57     ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 2/6] ethdev: return named opaque type instead of void pointer Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-17 22:11       ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-18 10:09         ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-17 21:57     ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 3/6] ethdev: separate driver APIs Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-17 21:58     ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 4/6] ethdev: separate internal structures into own header Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-17 21:58     ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 5/6] ethdev: reorder inline functions Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-17 21:58     ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 6/6] ethdev: rename function parameter for consistency Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-17 22:09     ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/6] ethdev: fix port id storage Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-17 22:19       ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-18 10:15         ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-18 11:29           ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-03-09 11:27     ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-03-09 12:58       ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-26 20:25         ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Ferruh Yigit

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