[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] meter: fix ABI break due to experimental tag removal

[Eelco Chaudron]

On 30 Jan 2020, at 21:20, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

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>>>>
>>>> Yes, sorry, this is what I meant.
>>>> Given 19.11.0 already has the symbol as experimental,
>>>> and that applications like OVS had to accept it as experimental,
>>>> why removing experimental tag in 19.11.1?
>>>
>>> I think it was mentioned that it was preferred not to suppress the
>>> compiler warning to avoid any accidental use in the future, but the
>>> OVS
>>> maintainer(s) should answer as I might remember wrongly.
>>
>> Yes this is the reason, OVS compiles with -Werror so we would like to
>> avoid the warnings. You can not disable them per include, it’s 
>> global
>> for all of DPDK.
>
> Yes but anyway OVS must accept the experimental function as the next 
> release
> will use it with DPDK 19.11.0.

Yes, we do for now, but we would like to remove it ASAP as it opens up 
the code base for the experimental APIs to slip in…