From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
ray.kinsella@intel.com, bluca@debian.org,
david.marchand@redhat.com, ktraynor@redhat.com, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] ABI version of experimental libraries
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 13:43:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5254976.hdfAi7Kttb@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200219114330.GB357121@hmswarspite.think-freely.org>
19/02/2020 12:43, Neil Horman:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:50:09AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 18/02/2020 10:42, Bruce Richardson:
> > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:15:56AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to remind everybody our mistake when defining ABI versions.
> > > > It has been "fixed" in this commit:
> > > > http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=f26c2b39
> > > >
> > > > Please let's think about the consequence for the experimental libraries.
> > > >
> > > > In DPDK 19.11, we use the ABI version 0.200 with soname 0.20 In DPDK
> > > > 20.02, we use the ABI version 0.2001 with soname 0.201 Numbers are
> > > > increasing, that's fine. When we'll switch to the new major ABI and use
> > > > a normal numbering: In DPDK 20.11, we will use the ABI version 0.210 with
> > > > soname 0.21 Numbers are dropping.
> > > >
> > > > In short, for experimental libs, ABI 20.1 > ABI 21.0
> > > >
> > > > Are we OK with this or do we prefer reverting to normal numbering for
> > > > experimental libraries in DPDK 20.02?
> > > >
> > > Personally, I would not be too concerned about the verions of experimental
> > > libs, so long as they don't conflict across versions and have some
> > > similarity to the major ABI version for the release.
> >
> > You think sorting of the version numbers is not important?
> > If we don't care comparing experimental version numbers,
> > then OK, let's drop this patch. But please we need a small vote.
> >
> > Note: there would be no problem if we did not vote for having
> > a special numbering for pure experimental libraries (I am still against).
> >
> I don't understand. Why would we change the ABI_VERSION at all in an LTS release at
> all? This operation is meant to take an an experimental API and mark it as
> stable by promoting its version number to the next major releases number. As
> such, in the LTS release, we should keep the soname the same, as there should be
> no other ABI changes in the promoted API.
The library version number is updated because we add new symbols.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-19 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-17 23:15 Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-17 23:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: fix soname for " Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-18 9:40 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-02-18 9:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-18 9:42 ` [dpdk-dev] ABI version of " Bruce Richardson
2020-02-18 9:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-18 10:36 ` Kinsella, Ray
2020-02-20 19:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-20 19:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: fix experimental library versioning Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-20 22:14 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-02-21 12:36 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-21 15:24 ` David Marchand
2020-02-21 15:34 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-21 16:41 ` David Marchand
2020-02-19 11:43 ` [dpdk-dev] ABI version of experimental libraries Neil Horman
2020-02-19 12:43 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-02-19 13:50 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-21 16:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-24 9:32 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-19 21:17 ` Neil Horman
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