[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Provide option to set Major ABI version

Jan Blunck jblunck at infradead.org
Fri Mar 17 10:16:47 CET 2017


On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Christian Ehrhardt
<christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Not sure about how it can be used in distributions, but it does not hurt
>> to provide the config option.
>> Are you going to link applications against a fixed DPDK version for
>> every libraries?
>
>
> Kind of yes - we can still update "inside" a major version e.g. stable
> releases just fine.
> That helps a lot transitioning from one to the next release.

Exactly. It enables me to roll out a new major release without being
blocked on the (external) consumers to pick up the changes. Now I can
do this one by one with reduced risk because the runtimes are clearly
separated.

> And I already heard that even other downstreams are using it to simplify
> their dependencies.
>

Downstream?! Pha! ;)


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