[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 2/6] power: make channel msg functions public

[Thomas Monjalon]

08/01/2021 15:30, David Hunt:
> From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> 
> Move the 2 public functions into rte_power_guest_channel.h
[...]
> +/**
> + * Send a message contained in pkt over the Virtio-Serial to the host endpoint.
> + *
> + * @param pkt
> + *  Pointer to a populated struct channel_packet
> + *
> + * @param lcore_id
> + *  lcore_id.
> + *
> + * @return
> + *  - 0 on success.
> + *  - Negative on error.
> + */
> +int rte_power_guest_channel_send_msg(struct channel_packet *pkt,
> +			unsigned int lcore_id);
> +
> +/**
> + * Receive a message contained in pkt over the Virtio-Serial
> + * from the host endpoint.
> + *
> + * @param pkt
> + *  Pointer to channel_packet or
> + *  channel_packet_freq_list struct.
> + *
> + * @param pkt_len
> + *  Size of expected data packet.
> + *
> + * @param lcore_id
> + *  lcore_id.
> + *
> + * @return
> + *  - 0 on success.
> + *  - Negative on error.
> + */
> +__rte_experimental
> +int
> +rte_power_guest_channel_receive_msg(void *pkt,
> +		size_t pkt_len,
> +		unsigned int lcore_id);

Why only the second one is experimental?

Given the uncertainty of this API, I think it should be all experimental.