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From: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>, Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>,
	Harman Kalra <hkalra@marvell.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	stefan.puiu@gmail.com, Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
	David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	"Ruifeng Wang \(Arm Technology China\)" <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>,
	nd <nd@arm.com>, Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal: use c11 atomic built-ins for interrupt status
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:18:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eepjq1ls.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8wLj6pykwhRT7ja4yjPBDnVoyUwgQN27i_N_HhE4QDTKw@mail.gmail.com> (David Marchand's message of "Thu, 9 Jul 2020 12:30:09 +0200")

David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> writes:

[...]

>> --- a/devtools/libabigail.abignore
>> +++ b/devtools/libabigail.abignore
>> @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
>>          changed_enumerators = RTE_CRYPTO_AEAD_LIST_END
>>  [suppress_variable]
>>          name = rte_crypto_aead_algorithm_strings
>> +; Ignore updates of epoll event
>> +[suppress_type]
>> +        type_kind = struct
>> +        name = rte_epoll_event
>
> In general, ignoring all changes on a structure is risky.
> But the risk is acceptable as long as we remember this for the rest of
> the 20.08 release (and we will start from scratch for 20.11).

Right, I thought about this too when I saw that change.  If that struct
is inherently *not* part of the logically exposed ABI, the risk is
really minimal as well.  In that case, maybe a comment saying so in the
.abignore file could be useful for future reference.

[...]

Cheers,

-- 
		Dodji


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-10  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-11 10:24 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal: remove redundant code Phil Yang
2020-06-11 10:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: use c11 atomics for interrupt status Phil Yang
2020-07-08  5:24   ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-08 11:41   ` Harman Kalra
2020-07-09  5:17     ` Phil Yang
2020-07-08 12:29   ` David Marchand
2020-07-08 13:43     ` Aaron Conole
2020-07-08 13:59       ` David Marchand
2020-07-08 20:48         ` Aaron Conole
2020-07-08 15:04     ` Kinsella, Ray
2020-07-09  5:21       ` Phil Yang
2020-07-08  5:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal: remove redundant code Honnappa Nagarahalli
2020-07-08  5:20   ` Phil Yang
2020-07-09  6:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: use c11 atomic built-ins for interrupt status Phil Yang
2020-07-09  8:02   ` Stefan Puiu
2020-07-09  8:07     ` Phil Yang
2020-07-09  8:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Phil Yang
2020-07-09 10:30     ` David Marchand
2020-07-10  7:18       ` Dodji Seketeli [this message]
2020-07-10  6:32     ` David Marchand

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