[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: remove experimental flag of ports enumeration

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/25/2018 11:29 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 25/04/2018 12:21, Ferruh Yigit:
>> On 4/24/2018 3:15 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> The basic operations for ports enumeration should not be
>>> considered as experimental in DPDK 18.05.
>>>
>>> The iterator RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV was introduced in DPDK 17.05.
>>> It uses the function the rte_eth_find_next_owned_by() to get
>>> only ownerless ports. Its API can be considered stable.
>>> So the flag experimental is removed from rte_eth_find_next_owned_by().
>>>
>>> The flag experimental is removed from rte_eth_dev_count_avail()
>>> which is the new name of the old function rte_eth_dev_count().
>>>
>>> The flag experimental is set to rte_eth_dev_count_total()
>>> in the .c file for consistency with the declaration in the .h file.
>>>
>>> A lot of internal applications are fixed to not allow experimental API.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 8728ccf37615 ("fix ethdev ports enumeration")
>>> Fixes: d9a42a69febf ("ethdev: deprecate port count function")
>>> Fixes: e70e26861eaf ("net/mvpp2: fix build")
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>>
>> Getting some build errors [1], it seems some samples are using some other
>> experimental APIs so that we can't remove the flag for them.
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> .../dpdk/examples/tep_termination/main.c: In function ‘main’:
>> .../dpdk/examples/tep_termination/main.c:1209:3: error: ‘rte_ctrl_thread_create’
>> is deprecated: Symbol is not yet part of stable ABI
>> [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
>>    ret = rte_ctrl_thread_create(&tid, "print-stats", NULL,
>>    ^~~
>>
>> .../dpdk/examples/vhost/main.c: In function ‘main’:
>> .../dpdk/examples/vhost/main.c:1497:3: error: ‘rte_ctrl_thread_create’ is
>> deprecated: Symbol is not yet part of stable ABI [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
>>    ret = rte_ctrl_thread_create(&tid, "print-stats", NULL,
>>    ^~~
> 
> Ah sorry, I think it is due to a change in next-net.
> I have prepared this patch on master.
> 
> Please can you fix it when applying?

OK, I will.