2021-03-31 23:55 (UTC+0200), Thomas Monjalon: > 31/03/2021 23:45, Nick Connolly: > > > > > > I don't understand your point. > > > I am just proposing to allow some apps to explicitly include the shim > > > for their convenience in case they are fully based on DPDK and > > > understand the risk of conflict with some other code. > > > > > > Agreed - there’s no harm in doing so. > > > > My point was simply that for a non-trivial application I suspect it will > > have limited value due to the sorts of conflicts that are likely to arise. > > OK yes. > If we expose this header, we should bring it with a disclaimer.
Let's now avoid "internal" (rte_os_shim?), but expose it later, if ever: 1. The concept of "not so public" API is new, probably a techboard subject. 2. We may want devtools checks against including it from public headers.