From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] lib/librte_ether: change function name of tunnel port config Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:02:01 +0100 Message-ID: <13639556.TU8Hbgn8dz@xps13> References: <1452496044-17524-1-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> <1457577734-17842-1-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> <1457577734-17842-2-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Wenzhuo Lu Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f51.google.com (mail-wm0-f51.google.com [74.125.82.51]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800B6DE3 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:03:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f51.google.com with SMTP id l68so35755725wml.0 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:03:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1457577734-17842-2-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2016-03-10 10:42, Wenzhuo Lu: > The names of function for tunnel port configuration are not > accurate. They're tunnel_add/del, better change them to > tunnel_port_add/del. > As it may be an ABI change if change the names directly, the > new functions are added but not remove the old ones. The old > ones will be removed in the next release after an ABI change > announcement. As the API/ABI compatibility is already broken in this release, I suggest to just rename the functions without keeping the old ones. Then this patch should be merge with the next one. I plan do it before applying.