From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH] cryptodev: Remove EXPERIMENTAL label Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:11:40 +0200 Message-ID: <1828032.Xk8haRDBUM@xps13> References: <1459842793-18071-1-git-send-email-fiona.trahe@intel.com> <1926853.mVXDAIlGME@xps13> <348A99DA5F5B7549AA880327E580B43588FC5A3C@IRSMSX101.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Doherty, Declan" To: "Trahe, Fiona" Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com (mail-wm0-f52.google.com [74.125.82.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AD3A6A for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2016 12:13:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id f198so25148975wme.0 for ; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 03:13:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <348A99DA5F5B7549AA880327E580B43588FC5A3C@IRSMSX101.ger.corp.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" 2016-04-05 09:48, Trahe, Fiona: > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com] > > 2016-04-05 08:53, Fiona Trahe: > > > The cryptodev API was introduced in the DPDK 2.2 release. > > > Since then it has > > > - been reviewed and iterated for the DPDK 16.04 release > > > - had extensive use by the l2fwd-crypto app, > > > the ipsec-secgw example app, > > > the test app. > > > We believe it is now stable and the EXPERIMENTAL label should be removed. > > > > Are you sure sure? :) > > It means you will try hard to not change the API anymore or you'll need a > > deprecation notice strongly agreed (outside of your team). > > We're sure sure :) I think we could change the namespace before making this API stable. What about using a dpdk_ prefix instead of rte_ ? (and some macros have CRYPTODEV or CDEV prefixes)