Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] bbdev: remove experimental tag from API

[Chautru, Nicolas]

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> From: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 8:53 PM
> To: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>; Chautru, Nicolas
> <nicolas.chau...@intel.com>
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> Subject: RE: [PATCH v1] bbdev: remove experimental tag from API
> 
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:27 PM Nicolas Chautru
> > <nicolas.chau...@intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This was previously suggested last year
> > >
> >
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> > > but there was request from community to wait another year to confirm
> > formally this api is mature.
> >
> > The request was to wait for a new vendor (i.e. non Intel) to implement
> > a bbdev driver for their hw.
> >
> > NXP proposed a driver for this class:
> >
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> > What is the status of this driver?
> 
> [Hemant]  We are in process of resending the patches in next few days.

Hi Hemant, 
You are not suggesting any change to the actual API and exposed bbdev symbols 
right? Based on this please ack the patch to remove the experimental patch.
Thanks
Nic

> 
> > I see no update on the bbdev API, which seems good, but a confirmation
> > is needed.
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Marchand