Hi folks,
Now is the time to remove old ABI compatibility preserving code.
Remove versioning code:
* Cryptodev
Fiona Trahe <fiona.tr...@intel.com>
Arek Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusz...@intel.com>
* Mempool
Olivier Matz <olivier.m...@6wind.com>
Remove alias to experimental:
* Metering
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
Finally,
Along the way I noted the following public symbols that are not assigned to a
version node.
* Regex Device
Ori Kam <or...@mellanox.com>
Symbols: -
rte_regexdev_unregister
rte_regexdev_register
rte_regexdev_get_device_by_name
rte_regexdev_is_valid_dev
Thanks,
Ray Kinsella
On 14/08/2020 16:16, Kinsella, Ray wrote:
> Please note,
>
> ABI v21 has been declared aligned with the DPDK 20.11 release.
> (https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=4f86c0ba19ba065c8c32a5b0111efc7bb74c9b96)
>
> The requirement to preserve compatibility with the previous major ABI version
> v20
> in DPDK 19.11 is now dropped. This is commonly known as the ABI breakage
> window,
> and some amended rules apply for the duration of this cycle:
>
> * The requirement to preserve compatibility with the previous major ABI
> version v20, no longer applies.
>
> * Contributors of compatibility preserving code and/or symbol aliases to
> experimental in previous releases, are now kindly asked to remove this
> code.
>
> I will send a direct notification to this group as a followup to this
> mail.
>
> * Symbol versioning references to the old ABI version v20, have been
> updated to reference the new ABI version v21.
>
> * Finally, please note, the ABI breakage window is *not* permission to
> circumvent the other aspects of the procedures to make ABI changes,
> that is, 3 ACKs of the requirement to break the ABI and
> the observance of a deprecation notice are still considered mandatory.
>
> Kinds regards,
>
> Ray Kinsella
> ABI Maintainer
>
