16/10/2018 13:52, Shreyansh Jain: > On Monday 15 October 2018 08:20 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > > These libraries has exported functions but the target of those functions > > are not user but other libraries. > > > > The version of these libraries doesn't mean much to the user so can be > > dropped from release notes. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> > > --- > > Indeed this is more a question, should we keep them or remove them? > > +1 for removing them. > At least for dpaa/fslmc perspective, I don't see any additional benefit > in release note. These libraries (dpaa/fslmc) are not actually > 'libraries' in true (read, plugability) sense :)
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst > > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst > > - + librte_bus_dpaa.so.2 > > - + librte_bus_fslmc.so.2 > > - + librte_bus_ifpga.so.2 > > - + librte_bus_pci.so.2 > > - + librte_bus_vdev.so.2 > > - + librte_bus_vmbus.so.2 The ABI of bus libraries is important if you want to plug a PMD into an older DPDK: if bus ABI has changed, you cannot. I am for keeping them. > > - librte_pci.so.1 This is a true library!
