From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874FDA0547; Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:15:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE8740040; Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:15:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-108-mta73.mxroute.com (mail-108-mta73.mxroute.com [136.175.108.73]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D884003C for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:15:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from filter004.mxroute.com ([149.28.56.236] filter004.mxroute.com) (Authenticated sender: mN4UYu2MZsgR) by mail-108-mta73.mxroute.com (ZoneMTA) with ESMTPSA id 17a3df2a62c0002d34.001 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256); Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:15:50 +0000 X-Zone-Loop: 19e39e271a903baf48fce7dd0fa3aa19001e716392e6 X-Originating-IP: [149.28.56.236] DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ashroe.eu; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=mFCsz82R8ZGt1q6VAu1LtdadRcL0iIcaCR/FWs3Idc0=; b=oFJYf6lLxlB6zOuB5GrbvYPJC6 FfAbsSvVdksvOju43aNKIt1Cc419UCJy9hN0Il/JgJUTQ1yezSpri5FDMcVIKUaBsaKYjiIDaKi4f mBJGrWwwWMo5HJG9xWVzbI0oEzjMXxFcbtFSxF81RZ0sOfvEg6xCdMfyI0jMuKyN5lBQyzSxMAeFb OcwGUUFoU8trJc6W2Qbqg+kl2+IAeljtfuEzkmCzqszyAcu6Ue95GlU6AWqOal30RQqTzV6gx/ypO 6DAnejGd6zGfl/YbWYRWL8z/Lz4+FHQhbPU6kQvm6oU8FmmdzR3pN05kCYL4+Yi0ygRSxJEamTWGH qXT1VpIQ==; To: David Marchand Cc: Thomas Monjalon , Stephen Hemminger , "Burakov, Anatoly" , dpdk-dev References: <18b5d2b7-0f9f-1098-a02b-948f7920329d@ashroe.eu> From: "Kinsella, Ray" Message-ID: <8f6aafbb-0ae4-a811-1a42-7e4a19892fb9@ashroe.eu> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:15:46 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AuthUser: mdr@ashroe.eu X-Zone-Spam-Resolution: no action X-Zone-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1, required=15, tests=[ARC_NA=0, TO_DN_ALL=0, FROM_HAS_DN=0, MIME_GOOD=-0.1, FROM_EQ_ENVFROM=0, MIME_TRACE=0, RCVD_COUNT_ZERO=0, RCPT_COUNT_FIVE=0, MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM=0, NEURAL_SPAM=0] Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Experimental symbols in eal lib X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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" Good point, that one is very up to the lib maintainer to make that call. Ray K On 24/06/2021 13:14, David Marchand wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 12:31 PM Kinsella, Ray wrote: >> >> Hi Anatoly & Thomas, >> >> The following eal experimental symbols are present in both v21.05 and v19.11 release. These symbols should be considered for promotion to stable as part of the v22 ABI in DPDK 21.11, as they have been experimental for >= 2yrs at this point. > > Just an additional comment. > Marking stable is not the only choice. > We can also consider hiding such symbols (marking internal) if there > is no clear usecase out of DPDK. > >