Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/2] standardize rawdev names

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:17:46AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 05/07/2019 11:39, Thomas Monjalon:
> > 05/07/2019 11:38, Thomas Monjalon:
> > > 05/07/2019 11:35, Bruce Richardson:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 10:33:59AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > > > > The names of the rawdev drivers and the resultant libraries they built
> > > > > were pretty inconsistent. In terms of directory names, some had "rawdev"
> > > > > in the name, e.g. skeleton_rawdev, ifpga_rawdev, while others didn't.
> > > > > Also, for the built .so/.a libraries, the names were not always
> > > > > consistent between make and meson, as, while meson enforced a consistent
> > > > > naming scheme, make did not, leading to differences - especially for
> > > > > those drivers with "rawdev" in the directory name.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This patchset attempts to make things more standardized by removing
> > > > > "rawdev" from all directory names - the drivers are in the "drivers/raw"
> > > > > directory after all - and then standardizing the library names to
> > > > > "librte_rawdev_<name>" for both make and meson.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Bruce Richardson (2): drivers/raw: remove rawdev from driver directory
> > > > > names drivers/raw: standardize name format of rawdev drivers
> > > > > 
> > > > Since the .so/.a files we produce are changing, would this patchset - if
> > > > accepted - need a deprecation notice in 19.08 for a future 19.11 merge?
> > > 
> > > I would say we can merge it in 19.08 without prior notice.
> > > Any other opinion?
> > 
> > Cc Neil
> 
> We got no more opinion.
> Does it mean I can merge it in 19.08-rc3?
> 
> 
> 
Sorry, I meant to get to this and completely forgot.

I presume that this is solely a name change, and not a functional change,
correct?  

I would think if thats the case, you could just release note the switch, and
distributions could all linker files with the old names to maintain
compatibility.

Neil