On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 07:36:20 +0000 Liron Himi <lir...@marvell.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > > One of our drivers is using the rte_cfgfile and meson is failing on > 'rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries_by_index' which is undefined. > > After a few debug cycles, I found out that this function is missing from the > .map file. > > So I added it and created a patch but checkpatch is failing with > > > > ERROR: symbol rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries_by_index is added in the > DPDK_20.0 section, but is expected to be added in the EXPERIMENTAL section of > the version map > > > > Do you know what it means and how to fix it? The function is not defined as > experimental so I don't understand what is the problem It means checkpatch is not infallible. It is only an advisor. In this case, it doesn't understand how to deal with a bug fix.
