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

Medvedkin, Vladimir vladimir.medvedkin at intel.com
Mon Jul 6 18:57:01 CEST 2020


On 05/07/2020 20:55, 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?


Sure, I'll send a patch.


>
>> - 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?
>
>
>
-- 
Regards,
Vladimir



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