[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/3] devtools: create internal ignore file for libabigail

[Thomas Monjalon]

05/05/2020 16:53, David Marchand:
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:21 PM Ophir Munk <ophirmu at mellanox.com> wrote:
> > +; These functions were moved from stable to internal.
> > +; This is a temporary exception till DPDK 20.11.
> 
> This is not until 20.11 if we merge this patch now.
> It is only when comparing 20.02 to 20.05.
> After this, symbols will be marked INTERNAL and will be skipped by the
> generic rule, so we can remove this exception in 20.08-rc0.

I think we need to keep this rule until 20.11,
because we want to ignore symbols which were in 19.11 and 20.02,
and removed (as internal) in 20.05.

If we remove this rule in 20.08, and comparing with 19.11,
the tool will complain about removed symbols, isn't it?