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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:44:39 +0200
Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com> wrote:

> 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?

Ignore the error, the build tool is not smart enough for this kind of change.