[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 18.11] Revert "common/octeontx: add missing public symbol"
Luca Boccassi
bluca at debian.org
Mon Mar 2 11:45:01 CET 2020
On Mon, 2020-03-02 at 11:23 +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 7:20 PM <
> luca.boccassi at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> > From: Luca Boccassi <
> > luca.boccassi at microsoft.com
> > >
> >
> > This reverts commit bd979fff652326e042c21aaaf3df1f515ffdff6e.
> >
> > It changed the public symbol version from @Base to @DPDK_18.05,
> > breaking ABI compatibility.
>
> This symbol is exported through private macro logs used by octeontx
> drivers.
> The drivers are all built at once and released together.
>
> The symbol is not exported in a public header.
> This is not an application ABI breakage.
It is part of the list of public symbols exposed by the shared object.
Whether it is used or not, as a matter of policy, I cannot upload a new
LTS release to Debian/Ubuntu if it removes/changes a public symbol.
--
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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