[PATCH v4 0/4] add versioned symbols for recently stabilized APIs

[David Marchand]

Hello Dariusz,

On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 at 18:08, Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> Main goal of this patchset is to address https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1957
> but it also handles other recently stabilized symbols and has some minor fixes:
>
> - Patch 1 - Fix RTE_VERSION_EXPERIMENTAL_SYMBOL macro on clang.
> - Patch 2 - Allow function versioning inside drivers.
> - Patch 3 - Version the function symbols stabilized in
>   https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=e8cab133645f5466ef75e511629add43b68a5027
> - Patch 4 - Version the rte_flow_dynf_metadata_register() function stabilized in
>   https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=4ee2f5c1cedf9ee7f39afa667f71b07f4004ba5c
>   Restore EXPERIMENTAL version on global variable symbols
>   rte_flow_dynf_metadata_offs and rte_flow_dynf_metadata_mask.
>
> v4:
> - Fixed build with older meson versions.
>
> v3:
> - https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20260625133311.1299705-1-dsosnowski@nvidia.com/
> - Added rebuilding of drivers with -DRTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB
>   whenever function versioning is enabled.
>
> v2:
> - https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20260624131337.1127323-1-dsosnowski@nvidia.com/
> - Drop patches introducing versioning macros for symbol aliases
>   and their usage (patch 4 and 5 from v1)
> - EXPERIMENTAL version on global variable symbols
>   rte_flow_dynf_metadata_offs and rte_flow_dynf_metadata_mask,
>   as discussed under v1.
> - Change commit title prefix in patch (2) from "drivers" to "build".
>
> v1: https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20260623113752.1100072-1-dsosnowski@nvidia.com/
>
> Dariusz Sosnowski (4):
>   eal: fix macro for versioned experimental symbol
>   build: support function versioning for drivers
>   net/mlx5: fix stabilized function versions
>   ethdev: fix promoted flow metadata symbols
>
>  drivers/meson.build                  | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/meson.build         |  2 ++
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_driver_event.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c         | 18 ++++++++++++------
>  lib/eal/common/eal_export.h          |  2 +-
>  lib/ethdev/meson.build               |  2 ++
>  lib/ethdev/rte_flow.c                | 13 ++++++++-----
>  7 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

LGTM.
Series applied, thanks Dariusz.

Please send the patch to drop this compat in 26.11.


-- 
David Marchand