[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] net/nfb: new netcope driver

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 16:55 +0200, Rastislav Černay wrote:
> Hi Ferruh,

<...>

> btw, why do you prefer to have driver as experimental?
> What does it mean it being experimental from your point of view
> exactly?
> <...>
> I do not prefer to have driver experimental, only reason it is there
> is
> this mail:
> 
> Luca Boccassi 
> bluca at debian.org
> 
> Tue, Mar 5, 11:41 PM
> to me, dev
> <...>
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/nfb/rte_nfb_pmd_version.map
> > b/drivers/net/nfb/rte_nfb_pmd_version.map
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..97fd251
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/net/nfb/rte_nfb_pmd_version.map
> > @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> > +DPDK_19.02 {
> > +
> > +        local: *;
> > +};
> 
> These are all new symbols so they should be marked as experimental,
> please see doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst
> 
> So after reading doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst I thought
> that
> all new drivers should be experimental as they are new before they
> stabilize,
> and during this time changes can be done to public functions without
> much
> hassle.
> Should I keep driver experimental?

Sorry that was just a misunderstanding on my part, I was thinking of
libraries. Please disregard that comment.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi