On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 07:54:40AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 13:49:31 +0000
> Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 02:35:57PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > This patch renames the enum values in the EAL include files.
> > > As a backward compatible temporary migration tool, define
> > > a replacement mapping for old values.
> > > 
> > > The old names relating to blacklist and whitelist are replaced
> > > by block list and allow list, but applications may be using the
> > > older compatibility macros. To help with conversion to new names
> > > cause a message when the compatibility names are used.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> > > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>
> > > Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <gr...@u256.net>
> > > ---
> > >  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c | 14 +++++++-------
> > >  lib/librte_eal/include/rte_bus.h           | 10 ++++++++--
> > >  lib/librte_eal/include/rte_dev.h           | 10 ++++++++--
> > >  lib/librte_eal/include/rte_devargs.h       | 10 ++++++++--
> > >  4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > >   
> > <snip>  
> > > +/* Backwards compatibility will be removed later */
> > > +#define RTE_DEVTYPE_WHITELISTED_PCI \
> > > + RTE_DEPRECATED(RTE_DEVTYPE_WHITELISTED_PCI) RTE_DEVTYPE_ALLOWED
> > > +#define RTE_DEVTYPE_BLACKLISTED_PCI \
> > > + RTE_DEPRECATED(RTE_DEVTYPE_BLACKLISTED_PCI) RTE_DEVTYPE_BLOCKED
> > > +  
> > 
> > This patch causes build failures which persist until patch 3, because of
> > these deprecations. I think you need to define the backward-compatibility
> > macros here, but only mark them deprecated at the end of the set.
> > 
> > /Bruce
> 
> Is building without warnings in every step that important?
> The previous patch series for master/slave had the same effect
> 
I assumed it was necessary, but maybe I'm mistaken.
Thomas, David, your feedback please? We really could do with getting this
patchset into the LTS release!

/Bruce

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