[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] NXP DPAAx fixes and enhancements

[Thomas Monjalon]

07/04/2020 12:25, Hemant Agrawal:
> > In the mean time, the tooling can be tought to ignore changes to these ELF
> > symbols, as you you guys all know already.
> > 
> [Hemant] will you please help me about adding entry to libagigail.abignore 
> I tried doing following, but it is not helping
> 
> --- a/devtools/libabigail.abignore
> +++ b/devtools/libabigail.abignore
> @@ -2,10 +2,15 @@
>          symbol_version = EXPERIMENTAL
>  [suppress_variable]
>          symbol_version = EXPERIMENTAL
> +       name = per_lcore__dpaa2_io
> +       name = dpaa2_io_portal
> 
>  ; Explicit ignore for driver-only ABI
>  [suppress_type]
>          name = rte_cryptodev_ops
> +       name = dpaa2_io_portal_t
> > 
> > > Anyway, all of those symbols in dpaa are part of the driver ABI.
> > > We are still missing a way to mark internal symbols.
> > > Neil had posted a framework for this
> > >
> > https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpatchwo
> > rk.dpdk.org%2Fproject%2Fdpdk%2Flist%2F%3Fseries%3D5004&data=02
> > %7C01%7Chemant.agrawal%40nxp.com%7C91a3230cfd334c28bbdb08d7c4d
> > ee590%7C686ea1d3bc2b4c6fa92cd99c5c301635%7C0%7C0%7C6371943339
> > 20186005&sdata=1Is%2BqQwP%2Bn0QVJ2HYK2%2Bx7TJooEvry1sNUUN
> > fWMygkM%3D&reserved=0.
> > >
> > > In order to get this series passing the checks, I recommend NXP
> > > rebasing Neil scripts (I will help reviewing this part), then mark all
> > > those symbols as internal in its drivers.
> > > Other vendor will convert their drivers later, as there is no need at
> > > the moment.
> > >
> [Hemant] I have commented on Neil's series.
> It needs more changes in existing code.
> An approach like __rte_experimental will work better.

I guess you mean __rte_internal?

Please Hemant don't wait for someone else filling the gap.
If __rte_internal is the right approach, please complete and use it.