From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>,
<bluca@debian.org>, <tredaelli@redhat.com>, <i.maximets@ovn.org>,
<james.r.harris@intel.com>, <mohammed@hawari.fr>,
Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>,
Michael Santana <maicolgabriel@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] build: select optional libraries
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:40:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZJG6eBwX3Qski4Q/@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23115010.6Emhk5qWAg@thomas>
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:33:15PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 20/06/2023 11:03, Bruce Richardson:
> > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:48:50AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:45 AM Bruce Richardson
> > > <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > I notice the change in behaviour for enabling the deprecated libs. Is there
> > > > > > > > any other change in behaviour for current users?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The only change I see, is that this implementation breaks enabling
> > > > > > > deprecated libs via disable_libs.
> > > > > > > It may break existing developer build directory and maybe some
> > > > > > > packaging scripts, this is why I am a bit puzzled.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Relooking at the disable_libs option current implementation, it seems
> > > > > > > backward to pass a disable_libs option when you want to build some
> > > > > > > deprecated library.
> > > > > > > It is more straightforward to request building libraries via
> > > > > > > -Denable_libs=<deprecated_lib> explicitly or -Denable_libs=*
> > > > > > > implicitly.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > But again, we may be breaking something for people who relied on this behavior.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That's what I expected, and I think that is ok. I just wanted to check that
> > > > > > the change in behaviour was only for the deprecated libs case.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thomas, wdyt?
> > > > > It requires some release note, at least.
> > > > >
> > > > I am assuming this is not targetting this release though, right? Assuming
> > > > 23.11, we can put in a deprecation note informing of the change ahead of
> > > > time too.
> > >
> > > I was hoping to get it in this release.
> > > But I am fine with postponing and announcing the change beforehand.
> > >
> > Given the fact that we are likely changing behaviour, and the fact that the
> > deprecated libs makes it more complicated than the drivers one (since we
> > have always on, default on and default off cases to consider), I think it's
> > best we don't rush this.
>
> I'm not sure what is the best behaviour.
> I tend to think such options should be simple to understand
> with only 3 cases:
> - no option -> default
> - enable option -> only core mandatory and listed libraries
> - disable option -> all but the listed libraries
> It looks simpler to forbid having both enable and disable libraries.
>
> Would you be open to change the behaviour of the drivers options?
>
Yes, no issue there. I don't see a problem with disallowing having both
enable and disable options set.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-20 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-10 16:48 [PATCH 0/5] Extend optional libraries list David Marchand
2021-11-10 16:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] ci: test build with minimum configuration David Marchand
2021-11-16 17:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-16 20:39 ` David Marchand
2021-11-16 21:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-10 16:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] build: make GRO/GSO optional David Marchand
2021-11-16 17:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-10 16:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] build: make metrics libraries optional David Marchand
2021-11-16 17:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-10 16:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] build: make pdump optional David Marchand
2021-11-16 17:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-10 16:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] build: select optional libraries David Marchand
2021-11-10 17:34 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-11-16 17:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-17 10:47 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-11-17 11:27 ` David Marchand
2022-01-07 16:13 ` Morten Brørup
2022-01-07 16:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-11-10 17:34 ` [PATCH 0/5] Extend optional libraries list Bruce Richardson
2021-11-17 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 " David Marchand
2021-11-17 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] ci: test minimum configuration David Marchand
2021-11-17 11:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-17 13:38 ` Aaron Conole
2021-11-17 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] build: make GRO/GSO optional David Marchand
2021-11-17 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] build: make metrics libraries optional David Marchand
2021-11-17 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] build: make pdump optional David Marchand
2021-11-17 11:28 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] build: select optional libraries David Marchand
2023-06-16 7:14 ` [PATCH v3] " David Marchand
2023-06-16 9:42 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-19 8:00 ` David Marchand
2023-06-19 14:11 ` David Marchand
2023-06-19 14:26 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-20 8:31 ` David Marchand
2023-06-20 8:35 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-20 8:38 ` David Marchand
2023-06-20 8:44 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-20 8:48 ` David Marchand
2023-06-20 9:03 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-20 14:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-06-20 14:40 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2023-06-20 15:01 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-21 9:54 ` David Marchand
2023-06-21 10:49 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-21 11:35 ` Morten Brørup
2023-06-22 9:27 ` Juraj Linkeš
2023-06-21 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Select " David Marchand
2023-06-21 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] kni: move IOVA build check David Marchand
2023-06-22 8:37 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-21 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] build: rename enabled libraries list David Marchand
2023-06-22 8:38 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-21 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] build: select deprecated libraries David Marchand
2023-06-22 8:43 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-22 8:50 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-23 9:35 ` David Marchand
2023-06-23 11:04 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-23 11:15 ` Morten Brørup
2023-06-23 11:19 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-23 11:32 ` Morten Brørup
2023-06-28 12:10 ` David Marchand
2023-06-21 17:00 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] build: select optional libraries David Marchand
2023-06-22 8:49 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-06-22 9:09 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Select " Bruce Richardson
2023-06-22 16:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-06-28 13:20 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] " David Marchand
2023-06-28 13:20 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] build: select deprecated libraries David Marchand
2023-06-29 12:44 ` Aaron Conole
2023-06-28 13:20 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] build: select optional libraries David Marchand
2023-06-28 14:48 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] Select " Morten Brørup
2023-07-17 12:54 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-11-17 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Extend optional libraries list Thomas Monjalon
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