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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] hash: rename unused field to "reserved"
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:01:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150922160157.1f22942c@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436805525-25916-1-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com>

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:38:45 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> The cuckoo hash has a fixed number of entries per bucket, so the
> configuration parameter for this is unused. We change this field in the
> parameters struct to "reserved" to indicate that there is now no such
> parameter value, while at the same time keeping ABI consistency.
> 
> Fixes: 48a399119619 ("hash: replace with cuckoo hash implementation")
> 
> Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

I am sorry this patch went into 2.1 because it broke source code
compatibility.  To me having source code recompile compatibility is MORE
important than ABI compatibility.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-22 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-13 16:25 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Bruce Richardson
2015-07-13 16:28 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-07-13 16:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Bruce Richardson
2015-07-13 17:29   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-15  8:08   ` Olga Shern
2015-07-15  8:19     ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2015-09-22 23:01   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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