On 29/10/2020 21:07, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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?
>
We never said anything specifically about the kmods (kni or igb_uio).
There is always a possibility a change here could break DPDK, however remote.
More probable for KNI than igb_uio.
Ray K
