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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Nick Connolly <nick.connolly@mayadata.io>
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/5] eal: make OS shims internal
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31/03/2021 23:45, Nick Connolly:
> >
> > I don't understand your point.
> > I am just proposing to allow some apps to explicitly include the shim
> > for their convenience in case they are fully based on DPDK and
> > understand the risk of conflict with some other code.
>=20
>=20
> Agreed - there=E2=80=99s no harm in doing so.
>=20
> My point was simply that for a non-trivial application I suspect it will
> have limited value due to the sorts of conflicts that are likely to arise.

OK yes.
If we expose this header, we should bring it with a disclaimer.