[dpdk-dev] The mbuf API needs some cleaning up

[Thomas Monjalon]

03/08/2020 10:42, Morten Brørup:
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Matz
> > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 5:25 PM
> > 
> > Hi Morten,
> > 
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:57:38AM +0200, Morten Brørup wrote:
> > 
> > > The MBUF library exposes some macros and constants without the RTE_
> > prefix. I
> > > propose cleaning up these, so better names get into the coming LTS
> > release.
> > 
> > Yes, Thomas talked about it some time ago and he even drafted a patch
> > to
> > fix it. We can target 20.11 for the changes, but I think we'll have to
> > keep a compat API until 21.11.
> > 
> 
> Great, then I will back off. No need for multiple patches fixing the same things. :-)

Morten, you are very welcome to work on cleaning mbuf API.
I think we must focus on introducing the new names,
while keeping old names as alias for one year.

The other things to do is to provide a devtools script
to help converting applications to the new names.