[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/12] common/dpaax: move internal symbols into INTERNAL section

[Hemant Agrawal (OSS)]

> 
> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 3:31 PM David Marchand
> <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 2:39 PM Hemant Agrawal (OSS)
> > <hemant.agrawal at oss.nxp.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > [Hemant] this is working fine for pmd_dpaa but not for pmd_dpaa2
> > >
> > > I removed the filename_exp and introduced function based name= Now
> > > the issue is  the following warning SONAME changed from
> > > 'librte_pmd_dpaa2.so.20.0' to 'librte_pmd_dpaa2.so.0.200.2'
> > >
> > > The  primary reason is that now pmd_dpaa2 has no symbol left for 20.0
> section.
> > > Following is not helping.
> > > [suppress_file]
> > >         soname_regexp = ^librte_pmd_dpaa2 so, it seems for now, the
> > > filename_exp is the only option
> >
> > That's interesting.
> > Because I wondered about this point when reviewing __rte_internal.
> > For components providing only internal symbols like components
> > providing only experimental symbols, the build framework will select a
> > soname with .0.200.x.
> >
> > Here, your dpaa2 driver was seen as a stable library so far.
> > Moving everything to internal changes this and the build framework
> > changes the soname to non stable.
> 
> Looking at a v19.11 testpmd binary:
> $ readelf -d $HOME/abi/v19.11/build-gcc-shared/usr/local/bin/dpdk-testpmd
> |grep dpaa
>  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library:
> [librte_bus_dpaa.so.20.0]
>  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library:
> [librte_common_dpaax.so.20.0]
>  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library:
> [librte_mempool_dpaa.so.20.0]
>  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library:
> [librte_pmd_dpaa.so.20.0]
> 
> Changing the soname would break this.
> 
> > You could keep an empty DPDK_20.0 block to avoid this and the soname
> > will be kept as is.

[Hemant] Yes, I was thinking about it but missed to make this change while sending patch. Will do it asap.
> 
> We will have to maintain such soname for all dpaa libraries until 20.11.
> 
> 
> --
> David Marchand