[dpdk-dev] Marking symbols as experimental in the headers only

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 2:22 PM David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 1:23 PM Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 09:48:22PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
>> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 4:16 PM Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > If you would like to make this adjustment, I'm fine with it, though be
>> > > aware,
>> > > you will likely need to make some adjustments to the
>> > > check-experimental-syms
>> > > script to account for this
>> > >
>> >
>> > I am not sure I see what you mean on check-experimental-syms.sh.
>> > I would only do a s/definition/declaration/ in the error message.
>> > Do you have something else in mind ?
>> All I was saying was that if you wanted to document the policy change,
>> you might
>> need to check that script as its a reflection of that policy, and I
>> couldn't
>> recall if it was grepping through .c and .h files (which might imply it
>> needs to
>> change to reflect this policy).  I just looked however, and its checking
>> object
>> files, so you should be ok.
>>
>
> Yes, thanks for the confirmation.
>

I have given it some more thought and did not send my patch that removes
all __rte_experimental from the definitions sites.
The real issue in the end is that the __rte_experimental in headers is the
most important thing and can be missed during reviews.
But I found no easy way to detect this.

Do you have any idea ?


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David Marchand