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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>
Cc: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
	"Gregory Etelson" <getelson@nvidia.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, matan@nvidia.com, orika@nvidia.com,
	rasland@nvidia.com,
	"Bernard Iremonger" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>,
	"Olivier Matz" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: introduce IPv4 ihl and version fields
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 19:03:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210602190336.493e44c7@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <859fa4c0-a218-b711-2839-026bf84d8c9a@huawei.com>

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 08:58:42 +0800
"Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com> wrote:

> Hi, Morten and all,
> 	I have a questions which has bothering me for a long time.
> 	What's the difference between API and ABI?
> 	Why does this patch does not breake ABI, but break API(maybe)?
> 	
> 	Hope for your reply, thanks.

The API being fixed, that a user can in confidence recompile their source
code and it will compile without any new errors.

The ABI guarantee means, that an application dynamically linked to DPDK
shared libraries will work without problem if the DPDK libraries are updated.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-03  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-27 15:28 Gregory Etelson
2021-05-27 15:56 ` Morten Brørup
2021-05-28 10:20   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-05-28 10:52     ` Morten Brørup
2021-05-28 14:18       ` Gregory Etelson
2021-05-31  9:58         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-05-31 11:10           ` Gregory Etelson
2021-06-02  9:51             ` Gregory Etelson
2021-06-10  4:10               ` Gregory Etelson
2021-06-10  9:22                 ` Olivier Matz
2021-06-14 16:36                   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-06-17 16:29                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-06-03  0:58   ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-06-03  2:03     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2021-06-03  4:59       ` Gregory Etelson
2021-06-17 15:02 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-09-03  7:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " getelson
2021-10-04  7:49   ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-04  8:59     ` Gregory Etelson
2021-10-04  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Gregory Etelson
2021-10-04 12:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Gregory Etelson
2021-10-04 15:59   ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-10-04 16:48     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-12 12:36       ` Gregory Etelson
2021-10-12 12:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Gregory Etelson
2021-10-13  8:58   ` Kinsella, Ray
2021-10-13 12:14   ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-13 17:12     ` Gregory Etelson
2021-10-13 17:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/2] " Gregory Etelson
2021-10-13 17:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/2] net: fix IPv4 change announce Gregory Etelson
2021-10-14  8:37     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-14 11:03       ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-14 12:21         ` Gregory Etelson
2021-10-14 12:32           ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-14 13:34             ` Ori Kam
2021-10-14 12:53       ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Akhil Goyal
2021-10-13 17:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/2] net: introduce IPv4 ihl and version fields Gregory Etelson
2021-10-14 15:11     ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-14 16:04       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-14 17:42         ` Gregory Etelson
2021-10-14  8:21   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/2] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-14  8:30     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-14 11:01       ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-14  9:29     ` Gregory Etelson
2021-10-14 11:10       ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-14 17:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 " Gregory Etelson
2021-10-14 17:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/2] net: fix IPv4 change announce Gregory Etelson
2021-10-14 20:00     ` Slava Ovsiienko
2021-10-21 22:00       ` Ajit Khaparde
2021-10-14 17:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/2] net: introduce IPv4 ihl and version fields Gregory Etelson
2021-10-14 18:16     ` Ajit Khaparde
2021-10-14 19:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/2] " Ferruh Yigit

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