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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
	Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>,
	Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] config: disable RTE_NEXT_ABI by default
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:55:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33456122.koQSlajCb5@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56a42359-9ead-7c33-72a3-1d89d56f383c@intel.com>

04/10/2018 17:28, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 10/4/2018 4:10 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 04/10/2018 17:48, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> Enabling RTE_NEXT_ABI means to enable APIs that break the ABI for
> >> the current release and these APIs are targeted for further release.
> > 
> > It seems nobody is using it in last releases.
> > 
> >> RTE_NEXT_ABI shouldn't be enabled by default.
> > 
> > The reason for having it enabled by default is that when you build DPDK
> > yourself, you probably want the latest features.
> > If packaged properly for stability, it is easy to disable it in
> > the package recipe.
> 
> My concern was (if this has been used), user may get unstable APIs and without
> explicitly being aware of it.

I am OK with both defaults (enabled or disabled).

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-04 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-07 17:44 [RFC] config: remove RTE_NEXT_ABI Ferruh Yigit
2018-03-07 18:06 ` Luca Boccassi
2018-03-08  8:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-08 11:43   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-03-08 15:17     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-08 15:35       ` Neil Horman
2018-03-08 16:04         ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-08 19:40           ` Neil Horman
2018-03-08 21:34             ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-03-09  0:18               ` Neil Horman
2018-10-04 15:43 ` [PATCH] config: disable RTE_NEXT_ABI by default Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-04 14:49   ` Luca Boccassi
2018-10-04 15:48   ` [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-04 15:10     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-04 15:28       ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-04 15:55         ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-10-05  9:13           ` Bruce Richardson
2018-10-05 10:17             ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-05 11:30               ` Neil Horman
2018-10-05 12:35                 ` Ferruh Yigit

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