Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Enforce checking on flag values in API's

2020-06-16 Thread Thomas Monjalon
28/04/2020 12:28, Bruce Richardson: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 04:16:21PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The DPDK API's are lax about checking for undefined flag values. > > This makes it impossible to add new bits to existing API's > > without causing ABI breakage. This means we end up doing u

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Enforce checking on flag values in API's

2020-04-28 Thread Ananyev, Konstantin
> The DPDK API's are lax about checking for undefined flag values. > This makes it impossible to add new bits to existing API's > without causing ABI breakage. This means we end up doing unnecessary > symbol versioning just to work around applications that might > pass in naughty bits. > > This is

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Enforce checking on flag values in API's

2020-04-28 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 04:16:21PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The DPDK API's are lax about checking for undefined flag values. > This makes it impossible to add new bits to existing API's > without causing ABI breakage. This means we end up doing unnecessary > symbol versioning just to work