From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: 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: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 16:28:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56a42359-9ead-7c33-72a3-1d89d56f383c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1785611.eL8Z1dKoq2@xps>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-04 15:28 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 [this message]
2018-10-04 15:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-05 9:13 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-10-05 10:17 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-05 11:30 ` Neil Horman
2018-10-05 12:35 ` Ferruh Yigit
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