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From: Venky Venkatesan <venky.venkatesan@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] ethdev: remove old flow director API
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:45:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55352D47.8010906@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150420163348.GA19573@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>



On 04/20/2015 09:33 AM, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 04:11:43PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> It's time to remove this old API.
>> It seems some work is still needed to rely only on eth_ctrl API.
>> At least ixgbe, i40e and testpmd must be fixed.
>> Jingjing, do you think it's possible to remove all these structures
>> from rte_ethdev.h?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> NAK.
>
> I'm certainly not opposed to removing the API's if they are truly no longer
> needed.  But they have been codified as part of the ABI, so the deprecation
> schedule needs to be followed.  Given what you've said above, it seems like that
> might be worthwhile anyway, as it will provide the needed runway to allow users
> to convert to the new API.
>
> Neil
+1 NAK. Agree with Neil.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-20 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 14:11 Thomas Monjalon
2015-04-20 14:32 ` Wu, Jingjing
2015-04-20 14:59   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-04-22  8:26     ` Wu, Jingjing
2015-04-20 16:33 ` Neil Horman
2015-04-20 16:45   ` Venky Venkatesan [this message]
2015-04-27 16:08     ` Thomas Monjalon

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