On 4/24/2024 5:08 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > For the 24.11 release, I want to remove the unused type string argument > that shows up in rte_malloc() and related functions, then percolates down > through. It was a idea in the 1.0 release of DPDK, never implemented and > never removed. Yes it will cause API breakage, a large sweeping change; > probably easily scripted with coccinelle. > > Maybe doing ABI version now? >
Won't this impact many applications, is there big enough motivation to force many DPDK applications to update their code, living with it looks simpler.