[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] build: makefile make experimental tag as global
Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
pbhagavatula at marvell.com
Thu Apr 2 17:45:04 CEST 2020
>
>On 4/2/2020 4:06 PM, pvnnikhilesh at gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
>>
>> Make ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API global across lib, drivers and apps.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
>
>I am OK to not require this flag for DPDK internally.
>
>But I remember this has been suggested when __rte_experimental
>implemented but
>rejected that time, and forced the flag for internals too.
Yup, based on discussion at
http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-April/161527.html
>
>> @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ include $(RTE_SDK)/mk/rte.vars.mk
>> LIB = librte_pmd_ionic.a
>>
>> # Required to use rte_eth_dev_create and rte_eth_dev_destroy
>> -CFLAGS += -DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API
>
>Some of the flags have comments around them to clarify why the flag is
>required,
>I was mainly requesting it to manange when to remove this flag, those
>comments
>also should be removed.
Ack, I got most of them but missed this one will send v2.
Also I think having the entire maintainer list in cc is a bad idea,
will skip using --to-cmd ./devtools/get-maintainer.sh in the next set.
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