Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK techboard minutes of October 24

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 10-Nov-18 9:18 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting
held on 2018-10-24
Attendees:
         - Bruce Richardson
         - Ferruh Yigit
         - Hemant Agrawal
         - Jerin Jacob
         - Konstantin Ananyev
         - Maxime Coquelin
         - Olivier Matz
         - Stephen Hemminger
         - Thomas Monjalon

0) DPDK acceptance policy on un-implemented API
- New APIs without implementation is not accepted.
- In order to accept a new API, At minimum
a) Need to provide an unit test case or example application
b) If the API is about HW abstraction, at least one driver
should be implemented. Preferably two.
c) If there are strong objections on ML about the need
for more than one driver for a specific API then
the technical board can make a decision.
- Konstantin volunteered to send existing un-implemented API
to the mailing list.
- The existing un-implemented APIs will be deprecated in v19.05.
- Deprecated un-implemented API will be removed in v19.08


Does this also apply to unimplemented parts of the existing API? For 
example, malloc API has long had a "name" parameter which goes 
unimplemented through entire lifetime of DPDK project. It would be good 
to drop this thing entirely as it's clear it's not going to be 
implemented any time soon :)

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Thanks,
Anatoly