[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] baseband: fix drivers API

[Thomas Monjalon]

07/10/2020 10:22, Maxime Coquelin:
> Hi Akhil,
> 
> Adding Thomas as he pulls your tree.
> 
> On 10/6/20 9:42 PM, Akhil Goyal wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> The series prefixes drivers APIs with rte_<drv_name>_ in
> >> order to avoid namespace pollution.
> >>
> >> These APIs are experimental, so no need to follow the
> >> deprecation process.
> >>
> > Added Fixes commit in patch description.
> 
> Thanks for applying it to your tree.
> 
> I did not add Fixes tag and Cc'ed stable at dpdk.org on purpose,
> because I thought it is was not a good idea to backport API changes,
> even if this is experimental it might be annoying for the user.
> 
> Thomas, do you confirm?

Absolutely: API must not change in a stable branch.

If an API is changed, it must be in the release notes.
But stable branches are not allowed to update such sections
of the release notes.