26/06/2020 10:49, Kinsella, Ray: > On 23/06/2020 14:49, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > > The APIs are marked in the doxygen comment but better to mark the > > symbols too. This is planned for v20.11 release. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> > > --- > > +* ethdev: Some internal APIs for driver usage are exported in the .map > > file. > > + Now DPDK has ``__rte_internal`` marker so we can mark internal APIs and > > move > > + them to the INTERNAL block in .map. Although these APIs are internal it > > will > > + break the ABI checks, that is why change is planned for 20.11. > > + The list of internal APIs are mainly ones listed in > > ``rte_ethdev_driver.h``. > > + > > Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <m...@ashroe.eu> > > A bunch of other folks have already annotated "internal" APIs, and added > entries to > libabigail.abignore to suppress warnings. If you are 100% certain these are > never used > by end applications, you could do likewise. > > That said, depreciation notice and completing in 20.11 is definitely the > better approach. > See https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/devtools/libabigail.abignore#n53
I agree we can wait 20.11. Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>