[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] service: clean references to removed symbol

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 2:54 PM Van Haaren, Harry
<harry.van.haaren at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 10:07 AM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org; Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>; Ray
> > Kinsella <mdr at ashroe.eu>; Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>; Pavan
> > Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at caviumnetworks.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH] service: clean references to removed symbol
> >
> > rte_service_get_id() was removed in v17.11 but the API description
> > still referenced it and a version node was still present in EAL map.
> >
> > Fixes: 8edc9aaaf217 ("service: use id in get by name function")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
>
> For rte_service.h doc changes I'm all fine.
>
> For ABI consistency, this removes a function from the DPDK_21 version map that didn't exist in
> the shared object itself. I'm not sure if that's an ABI break or not... I see ABI experts on CC,
> and will let them comment on that topic.

The symbol is not in the API anymore.
Applications can't have a reference to this symbol without a definition.


-- 
David Marchand