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

[Mattias Rönnblom]

On 2019-04-23 19:17, Mattias Rönnblom wrote:
> On 2019-04-23 17:31, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> It stops the build.

OK, so what was the way of a successful build was not the 
check-experimental-syms.sh script, but my incompetence. I had listed 
rte_rand in both the 19_05 section, and the EXPERIMENTAL section.