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 D9921A04FA; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 12:10:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBBD1BFBE; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 12:10:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com (us-smtp-1.mimecast.com [205.139.110.61]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B9B1BFB6 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 12:10:34 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1580728234; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=14A0B1PXA6A+NS+UcUJ97mhjA9gZVwLfv9fJ6ubTTLo=; b=dW6OoFNdrZIkLYchjPsFSHT/YmGZLzlEK8le/eDLK9IZ9Dz8s6zb91xEMPFWRzj5RrSANQ BbTFFZNJf1x6Z2vYeZYip0yJfzBBzHOafuGlJJqIwftYc1VrCKGayHxGH4mBhgINEY7O9w DJ6fQIIOwRz9QobaIKfD2LASNYJkk5M= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-254-q7bkYS-mMB6yrxSCezOaLg-1; Mon, 03 Feb 2020 06:10:32 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31B0E8017CC; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 11:10:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.116.184] (ovpn-116-184.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.184]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15C6B87B1D; Mon, 3 Feb 2020 11:10:25 +0000 (UTC) From: "Eelco Chaudron" To: "Thomas Monjalon" Cc: "Luca Boccassi" , "Ferruh Yigit" , "Neil Horman" , "Cristian Dumitrescu" , dev@dpdk.org, "David Marchand" , "Bruce Richardson" , "Ian Stokes" , "Andrzej Ostruszka" Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:10:24 +0100 Message-ID: <7BCFBAE9-6AD5-4F21-A289-B1D746A5A199@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <2254274.n0HT0TaD9V@xps> References: <20200129122953.2016199-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <3a08271e0d811359f7dc1cc732b6bdc89cc98a4e.camel@debian.org> <7465A5AB-87B6-465F-B794-799D562566BE@redhat.com> <2254274.n0HT0TaD9V@xps> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 X-MC-Unique: q7bkYS-mMB6yrxSCezOaLg-1 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] meter: fix ABI break due to experimental tag removal 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" On 30 Jan 2020, at 21:20, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >>>> >>>> Yes, sorry, this is what I meant. >>>> Given 19.11.0 already has the symbol as experimental, >>>> and that applications like OVS had to accept it as experimental, >>>> why removing experimental tag in 19.11.1? >>> >>> I think it was mentioned that it was preferred not to suppress the >>> compiler warning to avoid any accidental use in the future, but the >>> OVS >>> maintainer(s) should answer as I might remember wrongly. >> >> Yes this is the reason, OVS compiles with -Werror so we would like to >> avoid the warnings. You can not disable them per include, it=E2=80=99s= =20 >> global >> for all of DPDK. > > Yes but anyway OVS must accept the experimental function as the next=20 > release > will use it with DPDK 19.11.0. Yes, we do for now, but we would like to remove it ASAP as it opens up=20 the code base for the experimental APIs to slip in=E2=80=A6