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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: "Chautru, Nicolas" <nicolas.chautru@intel.com>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, "Rix, Tom" <trix@redhat.com>,
	"hemant.agrawal@nxp.com" <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
	"Vargas, Hernan" <hernan.vargas@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] doc: announce change in bbdev api related to operation extension
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:22:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230613142246.663559eb@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f201884-8a40-468e-c02a-52bc5e646024@redhat.com>

On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:00:25 +0200
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> wrote:

> >>
> >> If we are going to break the ABI, better to do the right rework directly. Otherwise
> >> we'll end-up breaking it again next year.  
> > 
> > With the suggested change, this will not break ABI next year. Any future functions are added at the end of the structure anyway.  

Do it right in 23.11, break the ABI and fix the few drivers.
It is not hard to have one ops struct (and it can/should be const) that is pointed
to by the bbdev.  That will hide the ops from the application.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-13 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-26  2:11 [PATCH v1 0/1] doc: accounce change in bbdev extension Nicolas Chautru
2023-05-26  2:11 ` [PATCH v1 1/1] doc: announce change in bbdev api related to operation extension Nicolas Chautru
2023-05-26  3:47   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-06-05 19:07     ` Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-05 20:08       ` Chautru, Nicolas
2023-06-06  9:20         ` David Marchand
2023-06-06 21:01           ` Chautru, Nicolas
2023-06-08  8:47             ` Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-12 20:53               ` Chautru, Nicolas
2023-06-13  8:14                 ` Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-13 17:16                   ` Chautru, Nicolas
2023-06-13 20:00                     ` Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-13 21:22                       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-06-14 18:18                       ` Chautru, Nicolas
2023-06-15  7:52                         ` Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-15 19:30                           ` Chautru, Nicolas
2023-06-16  7:36                             ` Maxime Coquelin
2023-06-16 15:48                               ` Chautru, Nicolas

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