On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:55:41PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > +Cc maintainers of the problematic libraries: > - librte_fib > - librte_rib > - librte_gro > - librte_member > - librte_rawdev > > 26/06/2020 10:16, David Marchand: > > Following discussions on the mailing list and the 05/20 TB meeting, here > > is a series that drops the special versioning for non stable libraries. > > > > Two notes: > > > > - RIB/FIB library is not referenced in the API doxygen index, is this > > intentional? > > Vladimir please, could you fix the miss in the doxygen index? > > > - I inspected MAINTAINERS: librte_gro, librte_member and librte_rawdev are > > announced as experimental while their functions are part of the 20 > > stable ABI (in .map files + no __rte_experimental marking). > > Their fate must be discussed. > > I would suggest removing EXPERIMENTAL flag for gro, member and rawdev. > They are probably already considered stable for a lot of users. > Maintainers, are you OK to follow the ABI compatibility rules > for these libraries? Do you feel these libraries are mature enough? >
I think things being added to the official ABI is good. For these, I wonder if waiting till the 20.11 release is the best time to officially mark them as stable, rather than doing so now?
