From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962E1CD5BD1 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2026 15:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AA74042C; Mon, 1 Jun 2026 17:26:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-dy1-f182.google.com (mail-dy1-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1994025F for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2026 17:26:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-dy1-f182.google.com with SMTP id 5a478bee46e88-304fb780deaso2339827eec.1 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:26:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20251104.gappssmtp.com; s=20251104; t=1780327578; x=1780932378; darn=dpdk.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=QVLhUcA53xcTUaUh79Hb7Sqc2vt3ANkJpgyuKRgNUiA=; b=HrjK4bV9eHBu17ZDckEZR1iUs2k8kNKfmfqyBU/vC9uCAvdpJTf7dGv9rnzHqZB75h 42d/fru1lJkqcIsdscUGXjEFYowjbViMKw117X7hCGBaRfCKNV2mp/Lrtb6K/8e5mMjE CKkVs8IEdHwpP93R5PJ4GkdtcB2lW9CtMgbz1upSgSpfRlvHIonyP+weoIbCIlN98wax Jao4t+GWetaU8EG9NMNzuI8ywohGZvy1m7x8SrkcoI09G2r8WR8aAu3p6PjtJazgzrEo +yJaeiUrfPSwgno3l6fiWYPe81RZn/q5+KLl8Fn8wT21XnKx4YsAJUI2n5T4uuGmqc7F KEkg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20251104; t=1780327578; x=1780932378; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-gm-gg:x-gm-message-state:from :to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=QVLhUcA53xcTUaUh79Hb7Sqc2vt3ANkJpgyuKRgNUiA=; b=BL073yUdt/hbL8UmY7Z7ofFkWiMiyBO6FS6hxaYCK6qCNyOtL7Uku4Rz0sXmZotXSB HO6Zy2TsfR+UbER1TFJ1+o1ckqiKYovWgSrbiBe86gG5AMnAeSHc0qI2pt74A3zyyt9U 3K4DIA2KQVIWUglSTjbhkEvSTm9DV012wkUZhsIAMo+MagrcFAB9Av4tvQiKOTWkF66X DpicAF0n/6Wd3o+zGAtt3nMOMoDL+yvSakjBLXnAx9O7cq63zUhMtccLk9Djj4BDD7SQ QqGfFAs5bGHB7c6LTN7U/47i+oq9oucYtAn5049TGo2LKePldxHwytqteDXoY5RVpNbo IRGA== X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=1; AFNElJ/B6/zKom91tdjggNR+4dYmiRIoxkyG7eVEKo/H6+YGox2KMnSpa48D2TCf4kqGjHzMSZQ=@dpdk.org X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YzMBGZsV0gVjuDvGL7yf4Xg1h9adZM54II98lvqXbm+wMQ6oemq xsCGnhgmZiSKTYYnbNQXn0F1YA4mWy8VK7x6XKAuhOQ/Zdiuql6+w4SPzV4HexntJ/o= X-Gm-Gg: Acq92OHghw2aF2iCm31UghEwHmcWWeqNSX0NxROAyFuf4QoEF/nJaCdjVI67U736Deg K9XqG1uBIKhDZhWvmlCuPYg3vrrHtUms4OlwNpRkOGfuqZcbAZkKuYmT+QaQq9jpkP4DqFCn3JC ax3M4qWqhW4iYjbzVzNX/sYsPifyvwavi1V8CUTDPaIIaPZ8PCo3XwBHLsJRjF8isB7x+WM9Bym AMhGD1iWBV83T043YcqPkK3bLyPJsFw4EgMZO1W2ObkVEJdSozR8/h5O/WdbsHL8ot1DEgKW+3r XlDPu8iDKG3dEFIFxmT4+MtjerCvTxPxVb4RDNksAPQ6WQzX3iOPX0T4TMXfanwLzNIp5F0AQ8+ k6qH6BUtiASu7xvsPlxDvkqUHeLtH58aqTYa3t0wTLi42Jt8CkJRi4esk3akYbNLtxO3lEJZhkz gJuxVTRW1fn/NHz/S1kIEVodsnxM3puxmiOzX9th+/HLCUrk/4TGYuIYFR+PShK+auROUfVCpId CI= X-Received: by 2002:a05:7301:100b:b0:304:db3a:3919 with SMTP id 5a478bee46e88-304fa4c9111mr4603860eec.6.1780327578183; Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.local (204-195-96-226.wavecable.com. [204.195.96.226]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5a478bee46e88-304ed563d09sm8830347eec.15.2026.06.01.08.26.17 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:26:15 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: David Marchand Cc: Andrew Rybchenko , dev@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethdev: promote experimental API's to stable Message-ID: <20260601082615.29246af2@phoenix.local> In-Reply-To: References: <20260527144407.160830-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org On Mon, 1 Jun 2026 13:55:13 +0200 David Marchand wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2026 at 16:44, Stephen Hemminger > wrote: > > + * ``rte_eth_macaddrs_get`` > > I am not enthousiastic on marking this stable. > It more or less sets in stone that the mac addresses are stored in an array. So either we kill it or make it stable, having experimental API for so long seems like a todo list that never gets done.