Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] baseband: fix drivers API

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 10/7/20 12:09 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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.

Ok, even for experimental APIs? I thought not.

> But stable branches are not allowed to update such sections
> of the release notes.
> 
>