24/09/2020 19:12, Alexander Kotliarov: > Hi there! > I would like to find out what is the policy regarding changes to the DPDK's > kmod drivers such as igb_uio.ko within a DPDK's LTS release. Are these > changes backward compatible? > For example, is there a guarantee that an application built > against 19.11.5, where igb_uio.ko received changes,would run with this > driver built from 19.11.1 version? > > Does http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html section 8.4 apply > to kmod drivers as well?
There is no such formal guarantee, but in my opinion, it should be the case. Do you imagine a change in kmod which could break a DPDK version?
