[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/12] common/dpaax: move internal symbols into INTERNAL section

[Ray Kinsella]

On 14/05/2020 12:06, Hemant Agrawal (OSS) wrote:
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>> On 14/05/2020 10:53, Hemant Agrawal (OSS) wrote:
>>> [Hemant] Thanks it worked  for me. It is not showing any error for the
>> changes in this patchset.
>>
>> I tested it also - and it didn't show an error either, which confused me. As you
>> are dropping a whole bunch of symbols from DPDK v20, it _should_ baulk at
>> this.
>>
>> Need to dig a bit deeper on this.
> 
> [Hemant] I have also made change in  libabigail.abignore. That should be the reason for no complains?

yes ... I discovered that since. 
are we 100% certain that no end user application would  ever have used these symbol?

[suppress_variable]
         name = rte_crypto_aead_algorithm_strings
+; Ignore moving DPAAx stable functions to INTERNAL tag
+[suppress_file]
+       file_name_regexp = ^librte_common_dpaax\.
+[suppress_file]
+       file_name_regexp = ^librte_mempool_dpaa\.
+[suppress_file]
+       file_name_regexp = ^librte_bus_fslmc\.
+[suppress_file]
+       file_name_regexp = ^librte_bus_dpaa\.
+[suppress_file]
+       file_name_regexp = ^librte_pmd_dpaa\.

> Hemant
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>> Ray K
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