Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] rte_ring: remove deprecated functions

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>]

On 06/12/2015 08:18 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
>
> These were deprecated in 2.0 so remove them from 2.1
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring.c           | 55 -------------------------------
>   drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map |  2 --
>   2 files changed, 57 deletions(-)
>
[...]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map b/drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map
> index 8ad107d..0875e25 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map
> +++ b/drivers/net/ring/rte_eth_ring_version.map
> @@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ DPDK_2.0 {
>   	global:
>
>   	rte_eth_from_rings;
> -	rte_eth_ring_pair_attach;
> -	rte_eth_ring_pair_create;
>
>   	local: *;
>   };

Removing symbols is an ABI break so it additionally requires a soname 
bump for this library.

In addition, simply due to being the first library to do so, it'll also 
then break the combined shared library as is currently is. Mind you, 
this is not an objection at all, the need to change to a linker script 
approach has always been a matter of time.

	- Panu -