[dpdk-dev] Stable ABI status of rte_meter_[t|s]rtcm_profile_config

[Dumitrescu, Cristian]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Traynor [mailto:ktraynor at redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 11:48 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org; Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>
> Cc: Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>; Singh, Jasvinder
> <jasvinder.singh at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Stable ABI status of
> rte_meter_[t|s]rtcm_profile_config
> 
> On 05/28/2018 04:31 AM, Andy Green wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > Between 18.02 and the putative 18.05 there were changes in the way the
> > meter stuff deals with its config.
> >
> > I updated the related code in lagopus, but I get warnings about using
> > the new APIs (it's the same for rte_meter_trtcm_profile_config())
> >
> > ./dpdk/meter.c: In function 'dpdk_register_meter':
> > ./dpdk/meter.c:119:7: warning: 'rte_meter_srtcm_profile_config' is
> > deprecated: Symbol is not yet part of stable ABI
> > [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
> >        rte_meter_srtcm_profile_config(&lband->sp, &param);
> >        ^
> > In file included from ./dpdk/meter.c:27:0:
> > /home/agreen/lagopus/src/dpdk/build/include/rte_meter.h:86:1: note:
> > declared here
> >  rte_meter_srtcm_profile_config(struct rte_meter_srtcm_profile *p,
> >  ^
> > ./dpdk/meter.c:132:7: warning: 'rte_meter_srtcm_profile_config' is
> > deprecated: Symbol is not yet part of stable ABI
> > [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
> >        rte_meter_srtcm_profile_config(&lband->sp, &param);
> >        ^
> > In file included from ./dpdk/meter.c:27:0:
> > /home/agreen/lagopus/src/dpdk/build/include/rte_meter.h:86:1: note:
> > declared here
> >  rte_meter_srtcm_profile_config(struct rte_meter_srtcm_profile *p,
> >
> 
> Hi Cristian,
> 
> Are these API still to be considered experimental in 18.08, or the tags
> can be removed?
> 
> Kevin.

No, we should remove the experimental tag on these functions.

> 
> >
> > As far as I can see this api change is not optional, it changes the
> > parameters for related apis to require a struct prepared with these new
> > apis.
> >
> > -Andy