04/11/2021 12:03, Ferruh Yigit: > On 11/3/2021 10:48 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > > Old macros kept for backward compatibility, but this cause old macro > > usage to sneak in silently. > > > > Marking old macros as deprecated. Downside is this will cause some noise > > for applications that are using old macros. > > > > Fixes: 295968d17407 ("ethdev: add namespace") > > > > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit<ferruh.yi...@intel.com> > > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger<step...@networkplumber.org> > > Hi Thomas, Andrew, > > What do you think about marking old macros as deprecated? > > This will cause warning in application code that is using > old macros, but shouldn't fail their build (unless -Werror > is issued).
It looks to be the right thing to do. I wonder whether we could wait 22.02 to apply it, so users of LTS are not annoyed by it.