From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 4/4] ABI: Add some documentation
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:07:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13295974.B6fKNOXleO@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435586380-1673-4-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
2015-06-29 09:59, Neil Horman:
> People have been asking for ways to use the ABI macros, heres some docs to
> clarify their use. Included is:
>
> * An overview of what ABI is
> * Details of the ABI deprecation process
> * Details of the versioning macros
> * Examples of their use
> * Details of how to use the ABI validator
>
> Thanks to John Mcnamara, who duplicated much of this effort at Intel while I was
> working on it. Much of the introductory material was gathered and cleaned up by
> him
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> CC: john.mcnamara@intel.com
> CC: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com
>
> Change notes:
>
> v2)
> * Fixed RST indentations and spelling errors
> * Rebased to upstream to fix index.rst conflict
>
> v3)
> * Fixed in tact -> intact
> * Added docs to address static linking
> * Removed duplicate documentation from release notes
>
> v4)
> * Fixed more grammatical errors / etc
> * removed BASE_SYMBOL from documentation
Series applied with minor fixes, thanks
This doc should help to produce patches with new ABI without breaking
the old one.
For cases where the backward compatibility is impossible to achieve,
a patch amending this doc to suggest a NEXT_ABI option can be discussed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-29 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-23 19:33 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] rte_compat.h : Clean up some typos Neil Horman
2015-06-23 19:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] ABI: Add some documentation Neil Horman
2015-06-24 11:21 ` Mcnamara, John
2015-06-24 11:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] rte_compat.h : Clean up some typos Mcnamara, John
2015-06-24 18:06 ` Neil Horman
2015-06-24 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2 " Neil Horman
2015-06-24 18:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2 2/2] ABI: Add some documentation Neil Horman
2015-06-24 21:09 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-25 11:35 ` Neil Horman
2015-06-25 13:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-25 7:19 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-06-25 7:42 ` Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
2015-06-25 8:00 ` Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio
2015-06-25 12:25 ` Neil Horman
2015-06-29 16:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib: remove redundant definition of local symbols Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-30 15:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-24 19:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2 1/2] rte_compat.h : Clean up some typos Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-24 20:15 ` Neil Horman
2015-06-24 20:49 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-25 7:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Gajdzica, MaciejX T
2015-06-25 12:28 ` Neil Horman
2015-06-25 14:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 1/3] " Neil Horman
2015-06-25 14:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 2/3] rte_compat: Add MAP_STATIC_SYMBOL macro Neil Horman
2015-06-26 10:13 ` Gajdzica, MaciejX T
2015-06-26 12:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-26 14:30 ` Neil Horman
2015-06-28 20:13 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-29 13:44 ` Neil Horman
2015-06-25 14:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 3/3] ABI: Add some documentation Neil Horman
2015-06-26 13:00 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-26 14:54 ` Neil Horman
2015-06-28 20:24 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-29 13:53 ` Neil Horman
2015-06-26 12:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 1/3] rte_compat.h : Clean up some typos Thomas Monjalon
2015-06-29 13:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 1/4] " Neil Horman
2015-06-29 13:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 2/4] rte_compat: Add MAP_STATIC_SYMBOL macro Neil Horman
2015-06-29 13:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 3/4] rte_compat: remove BASE_SYMBOL Neil Horman
2015-06-29 13:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 4/4] ABI: Add some documentation Neil Horman
2015-06-29 15:07 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-07-08 9:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 1/4] rte_compat.h : Clean up some typos Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-08 11:04 ` Neil Horman
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