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From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
To: "Rastislav Černay" <cernay@netcope.com>,
	"Ferruh Yigit" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] net/nfb: new netcope driver
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:23:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ffe8736cfd886f4f965b6fae46b3df2df32c67fb.camel@debian.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190401142354.pyr2OqzSPp6e7XCs6VLh6jdhnv2jgHN-87RkNMQlQLc@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGS_BLkFoFwanZyV_h919JMLQsOUUcDVkoKgoogHd7qX5aDFOw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 16:55 +0200, Rastislav Černay wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,

<...>

> btw, why do you prefer to have driver as experimental?
> What does it mean it being experimental from your point of view
> exactly?
> <...>
> I do not prefer to have driver experimental, only reason it is there
> is
> this mail:
> 
> Luca Boccassi 
> bluca@debian.org
> 
> Tue, Mar 5, 11:41 PM
> to me, dev
> <...>
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/nfb/rte_nfb_pmd_version.map
> > b/drivers/net/nfb/rte_nfb_pmd_version.map
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..97fd251
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/net/nfb/rte_nfb_pmd_version.map
> > @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> > +DPDK_19.02 {
> > +
> > +        local: *;
> > +};
> 
> These are all new symbols so they should be marked as experimental,
> please see doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst
> 
> So after reading doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst I thought
> that
> all new drivers should be experimental as they are new before they
> stabilize,
> and during this time changes can be done to public functions without
> much
> hassle.
> Should I keep driver experimental?

Sorry that was just a misunderstanding on my part, I was thinking of
libraries. Please disregard that comment.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-01 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-26 12:57 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/nfb: new Netcope driver Rastislav Cernay
2019-02-26 12:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/nfb: new netcope driver Rastislav Cernay
2019-02-26 14:20   ` Rami Rosen
2019-02-26 16:33     ` Rastislav Černay
2019-02-26 15:46   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-02-27 11:43   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/nfb: new Netcope driver Rastislav Cernay
2019-02-27 15:28     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-01 14:37   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/nfb: new netcope driver Rastislav Cernay
2019-03-01 18:47     ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-04 14:07       ` Rastislav Černay
2019-03-01 18:50     ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-04  9:53       ` David Marchand
2019-03-04 11:34     ` David Marchand
2019-03-04 14:33       ` Rastislav Černay
2019-03-04 12:35         ` David Marchand
2019-03-04 12:48           ` David Marchand
2019-03-04 15:15             ` Rastislav Černay
2019-03-05 20:31     ` Rami Rosen
2019-03-05 22:41     ` Luca Boccassi
2019-03-06 14:51       ` Rastislav Černay
2019-03-06 13:25         ` Luca Boccassi
2019-03-07 13:24   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Rastislav Cernay
2019-03-07 13:46     ` Luca Boccassi
2019-03-07 14:14       ` Jan Remeš
2019-03-22 12:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Rastislav Cernay
2019-03-22 12:12     ` Rastislav Cernay
2019-03-28 16:01     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-28 16:01       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-01 14:55       ` Rastislav Černay
2019-04-01 14:22         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-01 14:22           ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-02 16:05           ` Rastislav Černay
2019-04-02 16:05             ` Rastislav Černay
2019-04-01 14:23         ` Luca Boccassi [this message]
2019-04-01 14:23           ` Luca Boccassi
2019-04-01 14:55         ` Rastislav Černay
2019-04-04  9:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Rastislav Cernay
2019-04-04  9:05     ` Rastislav Cernay
2019-04-05  0:08     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-05  0:08       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-07 15:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] " Rastislav Cernay
2019-04-07 15:03     ` Rastislav Cernay
2019-04-12 12:15     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 12:15       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 12:16     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 12:16       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 14:37   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/nfb: remove redundant linking Rastislav Cernay
2019-04-12 14:37     ` Rastislav Cernay
2019-04-12 15:02     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 15:02       ` Ferruh Yigit

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