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 E7918A00C5; Mon, 6 Jul 2020 18:57:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6901DB0A; Mon, 6 Jul 2020 18:57:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C745D1DAE8; Mon, 6 Jul 2020 18:57:05 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: lDoXU6SijhNP8plnzMcPa6vtYa39+fICJNhOevFoBVjQcxdWvSdru+TaBRfBna0o6QddSRlat0 2uYejjKAHchw== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9673"; a="144957101" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,320,1589266800"; d="scan'208";a="144957101" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 06 Jul 2020 09:57:04 -0700 IronPort-SDR: RIWsZ/aTeeEFnyHdvQLuig3xlhYRjexrSEYEg6YEbec0GMxx4383pmI7K+mwuKDx4AJYE/wsgx lBJBmA9FN3AQ== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.75,320,1589266800"; d="scan'208";a="322423013" Received: from lcrookx-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.252.40.14]) ([10.252.40.14]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Jul 2020 09:57:02 -0700 To: Thomas Monjalon , David Marchand Cc: dev@dpdk.org, honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com, techboard@dpdk.org, Jiayu Hu , Yipeng Wang , Sameh Gobriel , Nipun Gupta , Hemant Agrawal References: <20200522065855.31056-1-david.marchand@redhat.com> <20200626081638.29890-1-david.marchand@redhat.com> <5479899.YojXWLVWEA@thomas> From: "Medvedkin, Vladimir" Message-ID: <9c3c746b-ebfe-cf9b-2cd7-6fe1ed71b3c7@intel.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 17:57:01 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5479899.YojXWLVWEA@thomas> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] Experimental/internal libraries cleanup 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 05/07/2020 20:55, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > +Cc maintainers of the problematic libraries: > - librte_fib > - librte_rib > - librte_gro > - librte_member > - librte_rawdev > > 26/06/2020 10:16, David Marchand: >> Following discussions on the mailing list and the 05/20 TB meeting, here >> is a series that drops the special versioning for non stable libraries. >> >> Two notes: >> >> - RIB/FIB library is not referenced in the API doxygen index, is this >> intentional? > Vladimir please, could you fix the miss in the doxygen index? Sure, I'll send a patch. > >> - I inspected MAINTAINERS: librte_gro, librte_member and librte_rawdev are >> announced as experimental while their functions are part of the 20 >> stable ABI (in .map files + no __rte_experimental marking). >> Their fate must be discussed. > I would suggest removing EXPERIMENTAL flag for gro, member and rawdev. > They are probably already considered stable for a lot of users. > Maintainers, are you OK to follow the ABI compatibility rules > for these libraries? Do you feel these libraries are mature enough? > > > -- Regards, Vladimir