On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 at 15:15, Dariusz Sosnowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Offending commit stabilized the following symbols > related to flow metadata: > > - 1 function symbol: > - rte_flow_dynf_metadata_register > - 2 variable symbols: > - rte_flow_dynf_metadata_offs > - rte_flow_dynf_metadata_mask > > Any application using experimental flow metadata symbols, > which was linked dynamically against 25.11 version of ethdev > library and using current version of ethdev library > would fail to start on symbol lookup error: > > /tmp/dpdk-25.11/usr/local/bin/dpdk-testpmd: > symbol lookup error: /tmp/dpdk-25.11/usr/local/bin/dpdk-testpmd: > undefined symbol: rte_flow_dynf_metadata_offs, version EXPERIMENTAL > > This patch addresses that issue by restoring EXPERIMENTAL version > on the global variables to keep ABI compatibility [1]. > Related inline helpers and variable declarations are kept as stable > (i.e., no __rte_experimental marker). > EXPERIMENTAL version will be removed from these global variables > in 26.11 release cycle on next ABI version bump. > > Standard function symbol versioning is also applied on > rte_flow_dynf_metadata_register() function. > > [1]: > https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/m7s3jl2566kibbapr2mfa2ic2opuc6b4ok2g67j3il5dgduzih@cz5wcdstb75n/ > > Bugzilla ID: 1957 > Fixes: 4ee2f5c1cedf ("ethdev: promote flow metadata API to stable") > > Reported-by: Yu Jiang <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Marchand <[email protected]> Once this series is merged, could you send a patch against 26.11 dropping this compat and marking the variables as stable? I'll mark it as deferred in patchwork, this is just to have a reminder to clean this up. -- David Marchand
