From: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>,
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>,
Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>,
Andrzej Ostruszka <amo@semihalf.com>,
Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] abi: provide experimental alias of API for old apps
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 15:13:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4679f377-494d-9665-9486-022c33b10964@ashroe.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47f36a3b-2cb9-6ac7-8430-d7583a1352d6@intel.com>
On 18/05/2020 19:32, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 5/18/2020 6:51 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> 18/05/2020 19:34, Ferruh Yigit:
>>> On 5/18/2020 6:18 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>>> 16/05/2020 13:53, Neil Horman:
>>>>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 04:01:53PM +0100, Ray Kinsella wrote:
>>>>>> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On v20.02 some APIs matured and symbols moved from EXPERIMENTAL to
>>>>>> DPDK_20.0.1 block.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This had the affect of breaking the applications that were using these
>>>>>> APIs on v19.11. Although there is no modification of the APIs and the
>>>>>> action is positive and matures the APIs, the affect can be negative to
>>>>>> applications.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When a maintainer is promoting an API to become part of the next major
>>>>>> ABI version by removing the experimental tag. The maintainer may
>>>>>> choose to offer an alias to the experimental tag, to prevent these
>>>>>> breakages in future.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The following changes are made to enabling aliasing:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Updated to the abi policy and abi versioning documents.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Created VERSION_SYMBOL_EXPERIMENTAL helper macro.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Updated the 'check-symbols.sh' buildtool, which was complaining that the
>>>>>> symbol is in EXPERIMENTAL tag in .map file but it is not in the
>>>>>> .experimental section (__rte_experimental tag is missing).
>>>>>> Updated tool in a way it won't complain if the symbol in the
>>>>>> EXPERIMENTAL tag duplicated in some other block in .map file (versioned)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
>>>>
>>>> Applied with few typos fixed, thanks.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is a new version of the meter library required?
>>
>> I think yes, Cristian is asking for some changes.
>>
>
> done: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/70399/
>
Thanks Ferruh.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-19 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-29 12:29 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] meter: fix ABI break due to experimental tag removal Ferruh Yigit
2020-01-29 14:46 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-01-29 14:57 ` Andrzej Ostruszka
2020-01-29 16:25 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-01-29 16:30 ` Andrzej Ostruszka
2020-01-29 16:40 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-01-29 16:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-01-29 17:49 ` Andrzej Ostruszka
2020-01-30 12:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-01-30 12:57 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-01-30 14:17 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-01-30 14:21 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-01-30 15:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-01-30 16:04 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-01-30 16:15 ` Eelco Chaudron
2020-01-30 20:20 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-03 11:10 ` Eelco Chaudron
2020-01-31 9:25 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-13 12:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] meter: provide experimental alias of API for old apps Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-13 16:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-13 17:37 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-13 18:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-14 8:44 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-14 11:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-14 11:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-14 15:10 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-14 15:32 ` David Marchand
2020-05-14 15:56 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-14 16:07 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-14 16:30 ` David Marchand
2020-05-14 16:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-15 13:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-15 14:41 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-15 15:03 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-15 14:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] abi: " Ray Kinsella
2020-05-15 15:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Ray Kinsella
2020-05-16 11:53 ` Neil Horman
2020-05-18 17:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 17:34 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-18 17:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 18:32 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-19 14:13 ` Ray Kinsella [this message]
2020-05-19 14:14 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-17 19:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] meter: " Dumitrescu, Cristian
2020-05-18 6:29 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 9:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 9:30 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 10:46 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 11:18 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2020-05-18 11:49 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 11:48 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 12:13 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-18 13:06 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-18 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-19 12:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-05-19 13:26 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2020-05-19 14:24 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-19 14:22 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-02 18:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC] meter: fix ABI break due to experimental tag removal Neil Horman
2020-02-03 12:53 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-02-04 12:02 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-05 10:04 ` Luca Boccassi
2020-02-05 11:32 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-13 17:40 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-14 2:40 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-14 11:36 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-02-14 20:48 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-14 21:52 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-02-15 13:43 ` Neil Horman
2020-02-17 14:23 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-02-17 15:37 ` Neil Horman
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