28/07/2025 07:11, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula:
> >Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com>
> >
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> Now that Feng Chengwen is ok with this change, can this be merged
> along with the ABI breaking changes in 25.11?
> Given that techboard approves the change.
> This change helps reduce ABI breakage when a new feature is added.

I would be in favor of this change.
Let's request a vote in the next techboard meeting.
(Cc techbo...@dpdk.org and added in the meeting agenda)


> >On 2025/7/25 14:04, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula wrote:
> >>>> Deprecate rte_dma_conf structure to allow for a more flexible
> >>>> configuration of DMA devices.
> >>>> The new structure will have a flags field instead of multiple
> >>>> boolean fields for each feature.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <mailto:pbhagavat...@marvell.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> +* dmadev: The ``rte_dma_conf`` structure is updated to include a new 
> >>>> field
> >>>> +  ``rte_dma_conf::flags`` that should be used to configure dmadev 
> >>>> features.
> >>>> +  The existing field ``rte_dma_conf::enable_silent`` is removed and 
> >>>> replaced
> >>>> +  with the new flag ``RTE_DMA_CFG_FLAG_SILENT``, to configure silent 
> >>>> mode
> >>>> +  the flag should be set in ``rte_dma_conf::flags`` during device 
> >>>> configuration.
> >>>>
> >>>> Acked-by: Amit Prakash Shukla <amitpraka...@marvell.com>
> >>>
> >>> There is only 1 ack.
> >>> Per our policy, it will miss the release 25.07.
> >>>
> >>> You can probably do this change anyway,
> >>> and keep ABI compatibility by versioning the function.
> >>
> >> Hi Fengchengwen,
> >>
> >> Are you ok with this change? If so please ack it so that I can work on 
> >> getting
> >> an exception from techboard to merge this without deprecation notice in 
> >> 25.11.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Pavan.



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