Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH V3 01/24] pipeline: move data structures to internal header file

[Dumitrescu, Cristian]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 5:51 PM
> To: Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitre...@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH V3 01/24] pipeline: move data structures to
> internal header file
> 
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:44:20 +0100
> Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitre...@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Start to consolidate the data structures and inline functions required
> > by the pipeline instructions into an internal header file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitre...@intel.com>
> > ---
> > Depends-on: series-18297 ("[V4,1/4] table: add support learner tables")
> 
> Won't this change will make future changes to API/ABI harder because more
> of the pipeline internals are exposed to application?

Not at all, this header file is internal to the library and not accessible to 
the application.