Re: [Xen-devel] RFC/Proposal: Partial `libxenctrl` API/ABI stabilisation

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 09:48 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 19.05.15 at 10:40, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 17:06 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 18.05.15 at 17:30, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > `libxenctrl` today exposes many symbols which look to be internal. We
> >> > should consider also reducing that set by using
> >> > `__attribute__((visibility("hidden")))`.
> >> 
> >> Or a version script?
> > 
> > Sure, I'm not familiar with the relative merits, I suppose it's just
> > white- vs blacklist. I'm happy to go whichever way people prefer.
> 
> Version scripts allow for both white and black listing. And they
> also help with retaining older version compatibility implementations
> of functions having got changed in an incompatible way in a newer
> version.

Sounds like the way to go then.

Ian.


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