[dpdk-dev] checkpatch failing on map change

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:36:20 +0000
Liron Himi <lironh at marvell.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> One of our drivers is using the rte_cfgfile and meson is failing on 'rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries_by_index' which is undefined.
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> After a few debug cycles, I found out that this function is missing from the .map file.
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> So I added it and created a patch but  checkpatch is failing with
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> ERROR: symbol rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries_by_index is added in the DPDK_20.0 section, but is expected to be added in the EXPERIMENTAL section of the version map
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> Do you know what it means and how to fix it? The function is not defined as experimental so I don't understand what is the problem

It means checkpatch is not infallible. It is only an advisor.
In this case, it doesn't understand how to deal with a bug fix.