From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Alexander Kotliarov <alexander.kotliarov@gmail.com>
Cc: users@dpdk.org, Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>,
david.marchand@redhat.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com,
bruce.richardson@intel.com, stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Changes to DPDK kmod drivers / backward compatibility within LTS rel.
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:07:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3222028.xZJDvd7WxQ@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADL4yYwcU8-Ab7AaWSP96tH158X1LJ=B14KsMU4yR89S+b_QOQ@mail.gmail.com>
24/09/2020 19:12, Alexander Kotliarov:
> Hi there!
> I would like to find out what is the policy regarding changes to the DPDK's
> kmod drivers such as igb_uio.ko within a DPDK's LTS release. Are these
> changes backward compatible?
> For example, is there a guarantee that an application built
> against 19.11.5, where igb_uio.ko received changes,would run with this
> driver built from 19.11.1 version?
>
> Does http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html section 8.4 apply
> to kmod drivers as well?
There is no such formal guarantee, but in my opinion,
it should be the case. Do you imagine a change in kmod
which could break a DPDK version?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-29 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-24 17:12 Alexander Kotliarov
2020-10-29 21:07 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-10-29 21:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-10-30 22:38 ` Kinsella, Ray
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