[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/2] eal: replace libc-based random number generation with LFSR

[Mattias Rönnblom]

On 2019-04-23 17:31, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 19:44:39 +0200
> Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2019-04-22 17:52, Mattias Rönnblom wrote:
>>> On 2019-04-22 13:34, Neil Horman wrote:
>>>    
>>>>> +uint64_t __rte_experimental
>>>>> +rte_rand(void)
>>>> Do you really want to mark this as experimental?  I know it will
>>>> trigger the
>>>> symbol checker with a warning if you don't, but this function already
>>>> existed
>>>> previously and was accepted as part of the ABI.  Given that the
>>>> prototype hasn't
>>>> changed, I think you just need to accept it as a non-experimental
>>>> function
>>>>   
>>>
>>> I'll remove the experimental tag and move it into the 19_05 section
>>> (without suggesting it should go into 19.05). That maneuver seems not to
>>> trigger any build warnings/errors.
>>>    
>>
>> OK, so that wasn't true. It does trigger a build error, courtesy of
>> buildtools/check-experimental-syms.sh.
>>
>> I can't see any obvious way around it. Ideas, anyone?
> 
> Ignore the error, the build tool is not smart enough for this kind of change.
> 

It stops the build.