03/08/2020 10:42, Morten Brørup: > > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Matz > > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 5:25 PM > > > > Hi Morten, > > > > Thanks for the feedback. > > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:57:38AM +0200, Morten Brørup wrote: > > > > > The MBUF library exposes some macros and constants without the RTE_ > > prefix. I > > > propose cleaning up these, so better names get into the coming LTS > > release. > > > > Yes, Thomas talked about it some time ago and he even drafted a patch > > to > > fix it. We can target 20.11 for the changes, but I think we'll have to > > keep a compat API until 21.11. > > > > Great, then I will back off. No need for multiple patches fixing the same > things. :-)
Morten, you are very welcome to work on cleaning mbuf API. I think we must focus on introducing the new names, while keeping old names as alias for one year. The other things to do is to provide a devtools script to help converting applications to the new names.
