Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/15] net/liquidio: rename version map after library file name

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 02:09:30PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 14:06 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:04:07PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > The library is called librte_pmd_lio, so rename the map file and
> > > set
> > > the name in the meson file so that the built library names with
> > > meson
> > > and legacy makefiles are the same
> > > 
> > > Fixes: bad475c03fee ("net/liquidio: add to meson build")
> > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> > 
> > Rather than doing this renaming, can we instead add a symlink in the
> > install phase to map the old name to the new one? I'd like to see the
> > consistency of directory name, map filename and driver name enforced
> > strictly in the build system. Having exceptions is a pain.
> > 
> > /Bruce
> 
> We could, but the pain gets shifted on packagers then - what about
> renaming the directory entirely to net/lio?

For packagers, what sort of ABI compatibility guarantees do you try and
keep between releases. Is this something that just needs a one-release ABI
announcement, as with other ABI changes?

/Bruce