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Re: [Xen-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] eal: remove xen dom0 support



05/09/2017 10:07, Tan, Jianfeng:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > 05/09/2017 05:41, Tan, Jianfeng:
> > > From: Richardson, Bruce
> > > >
> > > > Reading the contributors guide section on ABI, specifically
> > > > http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.html#deprecating-
> > an-
> > > > entire-abi-version
> > > > it seems like we should collapse down the versions to a single one
> > > > following the function removal, and also increment the whole library so
> > > > version.
> > >
> > > So for lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map, we should change
> > it in below way?
> > >
> > > DPDK_2.1 {
> > >         {APIs in DPDK_2.0 except xen APIs}
> > >         ...
> > > };
> > >
> > > DPDK_16.04 {
> > >         {APIs in DPDK_2.1 except xen APIs}
> > >         ...
> > > } DPDK_2.1;
> > 
> > No, you don't need to collapse. You can just remove Xen functions.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Besides, two more things: 
> 1. Shall we increase the so version?

Yes

> 2. This patch is about 8K lines long, do we need to split?

I do not know how you can split a removal.
If you have ideas, feel free.


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