07/10/2020 10:22, Maxime Coquelin: > Hi Akhil, > > Adding Thomas as he pulls your tree. > > On 10/6/20 9:42 PM, Akhil Goyal wrote: > > > >> > >> The series prefixes drivers APIs with rte_<drv_name>_ in > >> order to avoid namespace pollution. > >> > >> These APIs are experimental, so no need to follow the > >> deprecation process. > >> > > Added Fixes commit in patch description. > > Thanks for applying it to your tree. > > I did not add Fixes tag and Cc'ed sta...@dpdk.org on purpose, > because I thought it is was not a good idea to backport API changes, > even if this is experimental it might be annoying for the user. > > Thomas, do you confirm?
Absolutely: API must not change in a stable branch. If an API is changed, it must be in the release notes. But stable branches are not allowed to update such sections of the release notes.
