Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] meter: provide experimental alias of API for old apps

2020-05-13 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 5/13/2020 5:30 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > I think the title should be about ABI, not API. > > 13/05/2020 14:11, Ferruh Yigit: >> Duplicate the existing and versioned symbol as experimental. > > Would be good to explain the case of the meter lib you are addressing. > If I understand well, you

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] meter: provide experimental alias of API for old apps

2020-05-13 Thread Thomas Monjalon
I think the title should be about ABI, not API. 13/05/2020 14:11, Ferruh Yigit: > Duplicate the existing and versioned symbol as experimental. Would be good to explain the case of the meter lib you are addressing. If I understand well, you consider we "broke" the experimental ABI during 20.02 whe

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] meter: provide experimental alias of API for old apps

2020-05-13 Thread Ferruh Yigit
Duplicate the existing and versioned symbol as experimental. This is to prevent DPDK maturing experimental API breaking old applications using that experimental API. The relevant process update is captured in: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/65863/ Created VERSION_SYMBOL_EXPERIMENTAL helper macro.