On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:38:45 +0100 Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> The cuckoo hash has a fixed number of entries per bucket, so the > configuration parameter for this is unused. We change this field in the > parameters struct to "reserved" to indicate that there is now no such > parameter value, while at the same time keeping ABI consistency. > > Fixes: 48a399119619 ("hash: replace with cuckoo hash implementation") > > Suggested-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> I am sorry this patch went into 2.1 because it broke source code compatibility. To me having source code recompile compatibility is MORE important than ABI compatibility.