The __rte_experimental macro tags a given exported function as being part of
the EXPERIMENTAL api. Use of this tag will cause any caller of the
function (that isn't removed by dead code elimination) to emit a warning
that the user is making use of an API whos stabilty isn't guaranteed.
It also places the function in the .text.experimental section, which is
used to validate the tag against the corresponding library version map
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Fixing typos across dpdk source code using codespell utility.
Skipped the ethdev driver's base code fixes to keep the base
code intact.
Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
BASE_SYMBOL was only here for completelness.
DPDK currently doesn't need it, so lets remove it.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
It was pointed out in my examples that doing shared library symbol versioning by
partitioning symbols to version specific functions (as opposed to leaving the
latest symol version at the base symbol name), neglects to take into account
static builds. Add a macro to handle that. If you choose a versioning approach
that uniquely names every version of the symbol, then this macro lets you map
your symbol choice to the base name when building a static library
Also, while I'm at it, since we're documenting this in the guide, take the
abbreviated example out of the header
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
[Thomas: remove remaining part of old example]
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Clean up some macro definition typos and comments
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To differentiate libraries that break ABI, we add a library version number
suffix to the library, which must be incremented when a given libraries ABI is
broken. This patch enforces that addition, sets the initial abi soname
extension to 1 for each library and creates a symlink to the base SONAME so that
the test applications will link properly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Add initial pass header files to support symbol versioning.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
