Clarify the ABI reference version (DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION) tag, to use when testing builds with devtools/test_build[_meson].sh before submitting patches.
Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <m...@ashroe.eu> --- doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst index de493a9..877d2e2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst @@ -532,7 +532,8 @@ Checking ABI compatibility By default, ABI compatibility checks are disabled. To enable them, a reference version must be selected via the environment -variable ``DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION``. +variable ``DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION``. Contributors should ordinarily reference the +git tag of most recent release of DPDK in DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION. The ``devtools/test-build.sh`` and ``devtools/test-meson-builds.sh`` scripts then build this reference version in a temporary directory and store the -- 2.7.4
