From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yw0-f169.google.com (mail-yw0-f169.google.com [209.85.161.169]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41F411DE for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:28:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-yw0-f169.google.com with SMTP id o4so48661790ywd.3 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 01:28:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=canonical-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=8ocsYVsNf8KOzNkIWYGw0kowisgZcZfMIX2/cwRe7X8=; b=FbTuRNethVYssfFbcGpFnmRTnQ8ngaA70D5MRo1dtv0RkSak7IBm1uSMwXXiHmo/20 FohGphiXN4/c3scvvZVcv/wzNgWPmJcgbrS0k8vkINUkzZd/FcjAuakMcfZGE+IRuain m5ojf61w5ETSJQPs1SdAN06fn+lHl5S0qajqhCdK3+CB2jOSA2Cg9C/Mfom38vgzoJmo J0ERzbykQc8FnRooKHSUj17WPb0vqhv+G5pYIDtFrBgMqtSzypSszfNRU3HEek+hyioX gbgYusn7N2MlvBgmmLxb6bI4WLZGtml2SZWJ/Rp+FzwjzoBf6q8zbzmyEJbtz5gUFPjl KXFQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=8ocsYVsNf8KOzNkIWYGw0kowisgZcZfMIX2/cwRe7X8=; b=sjnbQX+eJuVGQJzh+P+G2T99Pq08jsVhi+L6rqk6qDkqAkWm8zufpJ/HompdeB2xAU nMpQg6kXOixwK39YmRBDZ1zSMN43Mu/09zOuH2Am5IRiH3sKvruwjxNqMjGaJGaZct4E hgcP+BnAlAE4R7UCdYhms8+yPgXBy+cocOvyS8NHdA8acKhvu9ZJWcenEtdBzfvCcXXB abhFNh/IsUN8SoD+QD/vzSY/kykbq2jjHPZ9xwNl0er6np+3WHUeMOA6nIFtMNXat5OP vK61ROFkVuG22kIR7sKFEZtw0AAJ15seiwNxK52Zl1+HE0O3b9/RfGib2BLufzGEzd3K suBw== X-Gm-Message-State: AFeK/H34q6jsFDmdzm27DhbIklemUMowsGJqpHU9ltDoY0Rgkg76BeUcma2i72CiY7zi9k/2m2NG0D5M6pZUHvnP X-Received: by 10.13.203.195 with SMTP id n186mr1793698ywd.154.1489739302051; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 01:28:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.129.27.11 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 01:27:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4962963.ZZcnbaMyEK@xps13> References: <1488360852-14458-1-git-send-email-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> <4962963.ZZcnbaMyEK@xps13> From: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:27:51 +0100 Message-ID: To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: dev , Jan Blunck , "cjcollier@linuxfoundation.org" , ricardo.salveti@linaro.org, Luca Boccassi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Provide option to set Major ABI version 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: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:28:23 -0000 On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Not sure about how it can be used in distributions, but it does not hurt > to provide the config option. > Are you going to link applications against a fixed DPDK version for > every libraries? > Kind of yes - we can still update "inside" a major version e.g. stable releases just fine. That helps a lot transitioning from one to the next release. I have an RFC patch for the Debian packaging making use of it this function that we will likely refresh and pick up on our next merge of a DPDK version. And I already heard that even other downstreams are using it to simplify their dependencies. Applied, thanks > Thanks ! -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd