[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] stack: remove experimental tag from API

[Eads, Gage]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 3:11 AM
> To: Eads, Gage <gage.eads at intel.com>; Ray Kinsella <mdr at ashroe.eu>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; david.marchand at redhat.com; nhorman at tuxdriver.com;
> phil.yang at arm.com; honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com;
> olivier.matz at 6wind.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] stack: remove experimental tag from API
> 
> 28/05/2020 07:46, Ray Kinsella:
> > Hi Gage,
> >
> > Do you have any idea.
> > If the change from experimental to stable symbol is likely to break anyone's
> application?
> > (are folks actively using the api with shared libraries)

Good question. I don't have a good sense of the active users, so I'd rather play it safe.

> >
> > If so, you _may_ consider offering a temporary alias to experimental until the
> v21 is declared at 20.11.
> > This is entirely at your discretion, see
> > https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.html (4.3.1.4)
> 
> Or we can wait 20.11.
> 

That works. I have no urgency to get this into 20.08 in particular.

> Anyway I think it deserves a comment in the release notes (API section).
>  

Ok, if there are no objections then I'll re-submit this patchset in a few months and include a release notes comment.

Thanks,
Gage