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From: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
To: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>,
	 Markos Chandras <mchandras@suse.de>,
	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RFC: DPDK Long Term Support
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:53:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE20257CC63@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160603181710.GA13454@mhcomputing.net>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall@mhcomputing.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 3, 2016 7:17 PM
> To: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Christian Ehrhardt
> <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>; Markos Chandras <mchandras@suse.de>;
> Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RFC: DPDK Long Term Support
> 
> >
> > What changes should not be backported
> > -------------------------------------
> >
> > * API or ABI breaking changes.
> 
> I think this part needs some adjusting.
> 
> It seems like there should be allowance for bug fixes where the original
> does break ABI but it is possible to make a version that doesn't.
> 
> A lot of DPDK bug fixes I see would fall into this category and it isn't
> discussed.

Hi Matthew,

Agreed, we should allow fix to be backported even if the patch itself cannot be, for ABI reasons.

John

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-07 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-03 15:07 Mcnamara, John
2016-06-03 16:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-06 11:49   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-06 13:31     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-06 14:14       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-06 14:23         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-07 13:17   ` Mcnamara, John
2016-06-03 18:17 ` Matthew Hall
2016-06-07 12:53   ` Mcnamara, John [this message]
2016-06-05 18:15 ` Neil Horman
2016-06-06  9:27   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-06 13:47     ` Neil Horman
2016-06-06 14:21       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-06 15:07         ` Neil Horman
2016-06-07 16:21       ` Mcnamara, John
2016-06-07 15:55   ` Mcnamara, John
2016-06-06 13:44 ` Nirmoy Das
2016-06-06 14:16   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-06-07 12:36 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2016-06-07 19:39   ` Martinx - ジェームズ

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