[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change on eal and kni

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:28:36 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:

> > 
> >   
> >> +* kni: Modify function return value for the sake of removing rte_panic
> >> +       from the init sequence in version 19.08.
> >> +  - In ``lib/librte_kni/rte_kni_fifo.h`` replace
> >> +    ``static void kni_fifo_init(struct rte_kni_fifo *fifo, unsigned size)``
> >> +    to return ``int``  
> > 
> > This is not a public API really so no deprecation needed.
> > It is just an include file used internally by library and the driver.
> >   

This does introduce the possibility of kernel/library version mismatch.
You might want to add a magic number to shared data structure.