[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] ethdev: Add tunnel encap/decap actions

Shahaf Shuler shahafs at mellanox.com
Mon Apr 23 13:00:57 CEST 2018


Thursday, April 19, 2018 4:03 PM, Adrien Mazarguil:
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] ethdev: Add tunnel encap/decap
> actions
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:04:18PM +0100, Declan Doherty wrote:

[...]

> 
> I'm still unsure about the definition involving a list of items. I imagined
> these actions even less generic than that. How about tagging them
> EXPERIMENTAL until sorted out through the first PMD implementation?

I think every new API should be marked as experimental. At least for one release. 
Here in specific, because there is no actual implementation of those APIs in any of the drivers. 

> 
> (We could even provide forward declarations only to prevent applications
> from using them in the meantime.)
> 
> --
> Adrien Mazarguil
> 6WIND


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