[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: ABI/API change announcement due to refactor
Thomas Monjalon
thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Sun Apr 10 11:58:59 CEST 2016
2016-04-07 10:12, Panu Matilainen:
> On 04/06/2016 09:53 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > +* A librte_vhost public structures refactor is planned for DPDK 16.07
> > + that requires both ABI and API change.
> > + The proposed refactor would expose DPDK vhost dev to applications as
> > + a handle, like the way kernel exposes an fd to user for locating a
> > + specific file, and to keep all major structures internally, so that
> > + we are likely to be free from ABI violations in future.
>
> Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
>
> I applaud the initiative, public structs are by far the worst offender
> when trying to maintain a stable ABI because they're so hard to
> correctly version that hardly anybody besides glibc bothers.
Yes, nice cleanup to do.
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
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