From: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
To: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
bluca@debian.org, nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Process for removing __rte_experimental
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 15:05:34 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ce83a95-8fa0-dfdd-978d-29c5c439a10c@nxp.com> (raw)
While reading through [1], I couldn't understand if __rte_experimental
and EXPERIMENTAL tag removed from code and map file, respectively, are
categorized under ABI breakage or not. Thus, whether deprecation for
them should be sent or not in a release cycle for removal in subsequent
release.
Logically, EXPERIMENTAL APIs are not part of stable APIs/ABIs and hence
they don't really break an ABI. Thus, deprecation for them doesn't make
sense. (or, as Luca noted on IRC, removing experimental is like
de-deprecation :) )
On IRC, Luca pointed out that in one of the Tech Board meeting minutes
[2], this was recorded but that too has slight ambiguity to it.
Any thoughts on this? Or, was this documented somewhere other than [1]?
[1] http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.html
[2] https://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-October/079961.html (Section 2-b)
next reply other threads:[~2018-05-25 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-25 9:35 Shreyansh Jain [this message]
2018-05-25 9:49 ` Process for removing __rte_experimental Thomas Monjalon
2018-05-25 10:17 ` Luca Boccassi
2018-05-25 11:16 ` Shreyansh Jain
2018-05-25 11:23 ` Neil Horman
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