[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: mark internal symbols in ethdev

[Thomas Monjalon]

26/06/2020 10:49, Kinsella, Ray:
> On 23/06/2020 14:49, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > The APIs are marked in the doxygen comment but better to mark the
> > symbols too. This is planned for v20.11 release.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> > ---
> > +* ethdev: Some internal APIs for driver usage are exported in the .map file.
> > +  Now DPDK has ``__rte_internal`` marker so we can mark internal APIs and move
> > +  them to the INTERNAL block in .map. Although these APIs are internal it will
> > +  break the ABI checks, that is why change is planned for 20.11.
> > +  The list of internal APIs are mainly ones listed in ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``.
> > +
> 
> Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr at ashroe.eu>
> 
> A bunch of other folks have already annotated "internal" APIs, and added entries to 
> libabigail.abignore to suppress warnings. If you are 100% certain these are never used 
> by end applications, you could do likewise.
> 
> That said, depreciation notice and completing in 20.11 is definitely the better approach. 
> See https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/devtools/libabigail.abignore#n53

I agree we can wait 20.11.

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>