[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] [PATCH v3 0/3] Experimental/internal libraries cleanup

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:55:41PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> +Cc maintainers of the problematic libraries:
> 	- librte_fib
> 	- librte_rib
> 	- librte_gro
> 	- librte_member
> 	- librte_rawdev
> 
> 26/06/2020 10:16, David Marchand:
> > Following discussions on the mailing list and the 05/20 TB meeting, here
> > is a series that drops the special versioning for non stable libraries.
> > 
> > Two notes:
> > 
> > - RIB/FIB library is not referenced in the API doxygen index, is this
> >   intentional?
> 
> Vladimir please, could you fix the miss in the doxygen index?
> 
> > - I inspected MAINTAINERS: librte_gro, librte_member and librte_rawdev are
> >   announced as experimental while their functions are part of the 20
> >   stable ABI (in .map files + no __rte_experimental marking).
> >   Their fate must be discussed.
> 
> I would suggest removing EXPERIMENTAL flag for gro, member and rawdev.
> They are probably already considered stable for a lot of users.
> Maintainers, are you OK to follow the ABI compatibility rules
> for these libraries? Do you feel these libraries are mature enough?
>

I think things being added to the official ABI is good. For these, I wonder
if waiting till the 20.11 release is the best time to officially mark them
as stable, rather than doing so now?