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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
	Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>,
	Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] config: disable RTE_NEXT_ABI by default
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 11:17:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <475dc69c-ed2f-dcf3-4af0-a7050051c270@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181005091351.GA20880@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 10/5/2018 10:13 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 05:55:34PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> 04/10/2018 17:28, Ferruh Yigit:
>>> On 10/4/2018 4:10 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>>> 04/10/2018 17:48, Ferruh Yigit:
>>>>> Enabling RTE_NEXT_ABI means to enable APIs that break the ABI for
>>>>> the current release and these APIs are targeted for further release.
>>>>
>>>> It seems nobody is using it in last releases.
>>>>
>>>>> RTE_NEXT_ABI shouldn't be enabled by default.
>>>>
>>>> The reason for having it enabled by default is that when you build DPDK
>>>> yourself, you probably want the latest features.
>>>> If packaged properly for stability, it is easy to disable it in
>>>> the package recipe.
>>>
>>> My concern was (if this has been used), user may get unstable APIs and without
>>> explicitly being aware of it.
>>
>> I am OK with both defaults (enabled or disabled).
>>
> I'd keep it as is. As said, I'm not sure it's being used right now anyway.

No, not used right now.
But I think we can use it, did you able to find chance to check:

https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-October/114372.html

Option D.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-05 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-07 17:44 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] config: remove RTE_NEXT_ABI Ferruh Yigit
2018-03-07 18:06 ` Luca Boccassi
2018-03-08  8:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-08 11:43   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-03-08 15:17     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-08 15:35       ` Neil Horman
2018-03-08 16:04         ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-08 19:40           ` Neil Horman
2018-03-08 21:34             ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-09  0:18               ` Neil Horman
2018-10-04 15:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] config: disable RTE_NEXT_ABI by default Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-04 14:49   ` Luca Boccassi
2018-10-04 15:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-04 15:10     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-04 15:28       ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-04 15:55         ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-05  9:13           ` Bruce Richardson
2018-10-05 10:17             ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2018-10-05 11:30               ` Neil Horman
2018-10-05 12:35                 ` Ferruh Yigit

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