> On Feb 27, 2020, at 6:26 AM, Neale Ranns (nranns) <nra...@cisco.com> wrote: > > > > From: <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> on behalf of Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org> > Date: Tuesday 25 February 2020 at 22:09 > To: Andrew 👽 Yourtchenko <ayour...@gmail.com> > Cc: Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org>, "Dave Barach (dbarach)" > <dbar...@cisco.com>, vpp-dev <vpp-dev@lists.fd.io> > Subject: Re: [vpp-dev] Can I submit some API changes for 19.08, et al. > release branches? > > > > > On Feb 25, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Andrew 👽 Yourtchenko <ayour...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > That’s the APIs in the master prior to the API freeze, in my book. > > > > The today’s situation is: > > > > - want bleeding edge features ? Use master. > > - want sort-of-boring-stability ? Use release branch > > > > Now, I am really interested why the folks who do want to experiment with > > the APIs, do not pick the master ? (Say, specifically for your case). > > FWIW, I'm absolutely fine following whatever guidelines, it's open source and > I'm sure people can make things work with whatever is best for both > project[s]. > > In my case we're not really talking about an API that is "bleeding edge", but > rather "waited around for someone to need/implement it". Doing a route/fib > entry lookup isn't very bleeding edge given what VPP does. :) > > True 😊 but the general usage model for VPP is that there is one agent/client > giving it all the state it needs to function. So why would that agent need > lookup functions, it has all the data already. The dump APIs serve to > repopulate the agent with all state should it crash.
I suppose that's why I needed to add this API then. :) We're using VPP more like a replacement for the kernel networking stack, with multiple networking clients interfacing to it, rather than just one monolithic application. Thanks, Chris. > > /neale
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