[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] abi: provide experimental alias of API for old apps

[Thomas Monjalon]

18/05/2020 19:34, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 5/18/2020 6:18 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 16/05/2020 13:53, Neil Horman:
> >> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 04:01:53PM +0100, Ray Kinsella wrote:
> >>> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> >>>
> >>> On v20.02 some APIs matured and symbols moved from EXPERIMENTAL to
> >>> DPDK_20.0.1 block.
> >>>
> >>> This had the affect of breaking the applications that were using these
> >>> APIs on v19.11. Although there is no modification of the APIs and the
> >>> action is positive and matures the APIs, the affect can be negative to
> >>> applications.
> >>>
> >>> When a maintainer is promoting an API to become part of the next major
> >>> ABI version by removing the experimental tag. The maintainer may
> >>> choose to offer an alias to the experimental tag, to prevent these
> >>> breakages in future.
> >>>
> >>> The following changes are made to enabling aliasing:
> >>>
> >>> Updated to the abi policy and abi versioning documents.
> >>>
> >>> Created VERSION_SYMBOL_EXPERIMENTAL helper macro.
> >>>
> >>> Updated the 'check-symbols.sh' buildtool, which was complaining that the
> >>> symbol is in EXPERIMENTAL tag in .map file but it is not in the
> >>> .experimental section (__rte_experimental tag is missing).
> >>> Updated tool in a way it won't complain if the symbol in the
> >>> EXPERIMENTAL tag duplicated in some other block in .map file (versioned)
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr at ashroe.eu>
> >>>
> >> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> > 
> > Applied with few typos fixed, thanks.
> > 
> 
> Is a new version of the meter library required?

I think yes, Cristian is asking for some changes.