On 8/26/21 2:04 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:46:35AM +0000, Akhil Goyal wrote: >>> Target is to reduce the public interface surface to improve the ABI >>> stability and this is preparation for the longer term stable ABI >>> support. >>> >>> Mainly device abstraction layer libraries are impacted because they have >>> two interfaces, one is public interface to the applications and other is >>> internal interface to the drivers. Some driver/internal interface >>> structures/symbols are in the public interface by mistake, this work is >>> to clean them. >>> Also some libraries has 'static inline' functions for performance >>> reasons (like ones in the ethdev), this work plans to split the >>> structures and hide the part that is not used by inline functions. >>> >>> The need of the work for the stable ABI already discussed and planned by >>> the DPDK technical board: >>> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/214662.html >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> >>> --- >> Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gak...@marvell.com> > > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> >
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybche...@oktetlabs.ru>
