[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 01/12] mldev: introduce machine learning device library

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:49:02 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> > > > > Good catch.
> > > > > By the way, we should remove unused RTE_LOGTYPE_*.    
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, for 23.11 would like to work down the list.    
> > > 
> > > Do we need to wait 23.11?
> > > It is not an ABI breakage.
> > > And most of these defines are already unused.  
> > 
> > Turning them into deprecated would be API breakage though  
> 
> API breakage is not forbidden.
> 

For the internal ones it would be ok, but what about the RTE_LOGTYPE_USER1 etc.
These need to go through the regular deprecation process.

The problem is that if the the types are not registered (see eal_common_log.c)
they might get reused.