Acked-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com>
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 03:23:51PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > Adding a document describing rudimentary ABI policy and adding notice space > for > any deprecation announcements > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> > CC: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> > CC: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson at intel.com> > --- > doc/abi.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 doc/abi.txt > > diff --git a/doc/abi.txt b/doc/abi.txt > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..b6dcc7d > --- /dev/null > +++ b/doc/abi.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ > +ABI policy: > + ABI versions are set at the time of major release labeling, and ABI may > +change multiple times between the last labeling and the HEAD label of the git > +tree without warning > + > + ABI versions, once released are available until such time as their > +deprecation has been noted here for at least one major release cycle, after > it > +has been tagged. E.g. the ABI for DPDK 1.8 is shipped, and then the > decision to > +remove it is made during the development of DPDK 1.9. The decision will be > +recorded here, shipped with the DPDK 1.9 release, and actually removed when > DPDK > +1.10 ships. > + > + ABI versions may be deprecated in whole, or in part as needed by a given > +update. > + > +Deprecation Notices: > + > -- > 1.9.3 >
