From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: usages issue with external mempool Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:35:18 +0200 Message-ID: <2462423.EsoJo7cWtt@xps13> References: <1626416.VyKLPpZHgH@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: Jerin Jacob , David Hunt , dev@dpdk.org, "olivier.matz@6wind.com" , "viktorin@rehivetech.com" , Shreyansh Jain To: Hemant Agrawal Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com (mail-wm0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E7C558A for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:35:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f47.google.com with SMTP id o80so62891639wme.1 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 06:35:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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" 2016-07-27 13:23, Hemant Agrawal: > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com] > > 2016-07-27 15:21, Jerin Jacob: > > > If we agree on this then may be I can send the API deprecation notices > > > for rte_mempool_create for v16.11 > > > > It would have been a lot better to send a patch during the 16.07 cycle to avoid > > breaking again the API. > > I'm afraid it will even be too late for the deprecation notice. > > [Hemant] Yes! It is late. > we can make these changes immediately after 16.07. You cannot change the API in 16.11 without having a deprecation agreement in 16.07.