[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/2] eal: replace libc-based random number generation with LFSR

[Mattias Rönnblom]

On 2019-04-22 17:52, Mattias Rönnblom wrote:
> On 2019-04-22 13:34, Neil Horman wrote:
> 
>>> +uint64_t __rte_experimental
>>> +rte_rand(void)
>> Do you really want to mark this as experimental?  I know it will 
>> trigger the
>> symbol checker with a warning if you don't, but this function already 
>> existed
>> previously and was accepted as part of the ABI.  Given that the 
>> prototype hasn't
>> changed, I think you just need to accept it as a non-experimental 
>> function
>>
> 
> I'll remove the experimental tag and move it into the 19_05 section 
> (without suggesting it should go into 19.05). That maneuver seems not to 
> trigger any build warnings/errors.
> 

OK, so that wasn't true. It does trigger a build error, courtesy of 
buildtools/check-experimental-syms.sh.

I can't see any obvious way around it. Ideas, anyone?