From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87131A00BE; Thu, 28 May 2020 10:10:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B7E1DB28; Thu, 28 May 2020 10:10:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1EA1DA85 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 10:10:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB1C5C01C5; Thu, 28 May 2020 04:10:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 28 May 2020 04:10:42 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=fm1; bh= bTIeQMTe69gJS2vE+ntrjPSZcBvw5QyweUMh/7xNkp4=; b=wboYxKGMfaqBIeQL vq7oquduPpTmbsforwOMsBxx+Mlm0AAD3Dsw8n1j1E5Ll6goo7+HiG1bi1/ZIaPA gYLy7eGSNO21ljadm0ZYnW4C+/Ob38rItQQLMF/i5tkNm2q8n96j2niR+u2BqkeI ovz9RWQsofLlH6DrHzKqYz3YU9qlXKN4oV1FrLzFtgPMRm96EwQwKz/TTqQYR0Cu dPbCBPjBuEcWNHWXz9XgNmyjqjTbBtdcU4CW7obwdA+dZGVjf/I9qwjIyeQRHUjW Y29DGYDPsJUUqj6qZFk4tlVBzZnivaWOPjNqA2ou0eNyJGyv/6MKfbstCnmHNygJ ta96jg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=bTIeQMTe69gJS2vE+ntrjPSZcBvw5QyweUMh/7xNk p4=; b=Cr/3ur7ISLozV+NYQ3kH5vNPOFQ+/WB908aeDxLwIxt3gLJHpCCzgtxa+ 6r8LYfZ12FCXDp0QRC7nst782IG2q0/fPK1YW5g8MHJEKuH5CdqdY4TSbWspKORY ldC8Lq0HiZ6adqDREGawDi1m5ONpuiwNnpmALtRNkzisstVHh8j0udAr3ecSJISD OWXbYstljGeALnsnos+vd/FxrCGQc2Q3vOLJvtoxrptR1CbvBL1KlcyKL+UGEJ5z xyzNWOuOGduOBqddE2kfb+nVtg/QkvWiYwOBX+NQSHTDtg9XoCbYzLfbAvNxWlE8 0+AwoilfH0HvOd4q1d4/Oxto0ueSA== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduhedruddvhedguddthecutefuodetggdotefrod ftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfhrghsthforghilhdpqfgfvfdpuffrtefokffrpgfnqfgh necuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmd enucfjughrpefhvffufffkjghfggfgtgesthfuredttddtvdenucfhrhhomhepvfhhohhm rghsucfoohhnjhgrlhhonhcuoehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvghtqeenuc ggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeffvdffjeeuteelfeeileduudeugfetjeelveefkeejfeeigeeh teffvdekfeegudenucffohhmrghinhepughpughkrdhorhhgnecukfhppeejjedrudefge drvddtfedrudekgeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhl fhhrohhmpehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvght X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6C6CB30614FA; Thu, 28 May 2020 04:10:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Gage Eads , Ray Kinsella Cc: dev@dpdk.org, david.marchand@redhat.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, phil.yang@arm.com, honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com, olivier.matz@6wind.com Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 10:10:38 +0200 Message-ID: <2974384.dt8McJPEEZ@thomas> In-Reply-To: <542e46eb-9cfc-bdd5-5ed8-97565b2e7113@ashroe.eu> References: <20200528010423.5941-1-gage.eads@intel.com> <542e46eb-9cfc-bdd5-5ed8-97565b2e7113@ashroe.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] stack: remove experimental tag from API X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 28/05/2020 07:46, Ray Kinsella: > Hi Gage, > > Do you have any idea. > If the change from experimental to stable symbol is likely to break anyone's application? > (are folks actively using the api with shared libraries) > > If so, you _may_ consider offering a temporary alias to experimental until the v21 is declared at 20.11. > This is entirely at your discretion, see > https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.html (4.3.1.4) Or we can wait 20.11. Anyway I think it deserves a comment in the release notes (API section).