92 Commits

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Thomas Monjalon
b6e3d7a61e doc: remove unused maintainer role from guide
The backup maintainer role is not explicitly used in the file MAINTAINERS.
Listing names in a priority order is preferred and more flexible
than explicit named roles.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2019-07-30 23:28:22 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
d3ce1dc637 doc: fix PDF build
The command "make doc-guides-pdf" is failing because
there are more than 1500 lines in the file MAINTAINERS
which is included in the contributing guide.

We are facing the issue mentioned in this comment:
https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/3099#issuecomment-256440704

Anyway the file MAINTAINERS is mentioned several times in the guide.
So the "literalinclude" is removed from the guide to fix the build
of the PDF.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2019-07-10 09:43:30 +02:00
Bruce Richardson
8baad6f884 build: print list of disabled components
When configuring with meson we print out a list of enabled components, but
it is also useful to list out the disabled components and the reasons why.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
2019-07-02 23:20:26 +02:00
David Marchand
cfe3aeb170 remove experimental tags from all symbol definitions
We had some inconsistencies between functions prototypes and actual
definitions.
Let's avoid this by only adding the experimental tag to the prototypes.
Tests with gcc and clang show it is enough.

git grep -l __rte_experimental |grep \.c$ |while read file; do
	sed -i -e '/^__rte_experimental$/d' $file;
	sed -i -e 's/  *__rte_experimental//' $file;
	sed -i -e 's/__rte_experimental  *//' $file;
done

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
2019-06-29 19:04:43 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
f98f4fb25c doc: fix PDF with greek letter
For an unknown reason, the sign "μ" is not accepted by some environments,
probably due to the version of some Latex packages or dependencies.

	! Package inputenc Error: Unicode character μ (U+03BC)
	(inputenc)                not set up for use with LaTeX.

It is fixed by installing texlive-langgreek.

Fixes: d0dff9ba445e ("doc: sample application user guide")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2019-05-29 13:03:17 +02:00
Thomas Monjalon
baf9fba303 doc: prepare security process for vulnerabilities
In case a vulnerability is discovered, the process to follow
is described in this document.
It has been inspired by the process of some referenced projects
and with the help of experts from Intel, RedHat, Mellanox
and the Linux Foundation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
2019-05-13 22:25:21 +02:00
John McNamara
d629b7b5fe doc: fix spelling reported by aspell in guides
Fix spelling errors in the guide docs.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
2019-05-03 00:37:13 +02:00
Bruce Richardson
adf93ca564 build: increase readability via shortcut variables
Define variables for "is_linux", "is_freebsd" and "is_windows"
to make the code shorter for comparisons and more readable.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
2019-04-17 18:09:52 +02:00
Kevin Traynor
219a6e74ca doc: update LTS section
Update the LTS section to mention the branch and how LTS support ends.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2019-04-05 15:46:10 +02:00
Kevin Traynor
cf6b07d206 doc: note validation and timeline required for stables
If a stable branch for a specific DPDK release is to proceed,
along with needing a maintainer, there should also be commitment
from major contributors for validation of the releases.

Also, as decided in the March 27th techboard, to facilitate user
planning, a release should be designated as a stable release
no later than 1 month after it's initial master release.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2019-04-05 15:39:15 +02:00
David Marchand
560a3580ba doc: fix ABI check script examples
The doc examples are not aligned on the script following the
incriminated commit.

Fixes: c4a5fe3bf832 ("devtools: rework ABI checker script")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
2019-04-05 10:40:56 +02:00
Rami Rosen
eeafaf40c9 doc: fix two typos in contributing guide
This patch fixes two typos in the coding style part of
DPDK contributing guide:

- The header entry should have .h file instead of .c file.
- The will->This will

Fixes: 44a6dface13b ("doc: describe how to add new components")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
2019-04-05 10:40:56 +02:00
Dekel Peled
047b663a59 doc: fix links to doxygen and sphinx sites
Update broken links, replace with valid links.

Fixes: 7798f17a0d62 ("doc: add documentation guidelines")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Dekel Peled <dekelp@mellanox.com>
2019-04-05 10:40:56 +02:00
Ferruh Yigit
7abe4a24cc doc: add deprecation marker usage
Define '__rte_deprecated' usage process.

Suggests keeping old API with '__rte_deprecated' marker including
next LTS, they will be removed just after the LTS release.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
2019-03-27 14:28:51 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
e17e6d31ca doc: make RTE_NEXT_ABI optional in guidelines
Initial process requires oncoming changes described in deprecation
notice should be implemented in a RTE_NEXT_ABI gated way.

This has been discussed in technical board, and since this can cause a
multiple #ifdef blocks in multiple locations of the code, can be
confusing specially for the modifications that requires data structure
changes. Anyway this was not happening in practice.

Making RTE_NEXT_ABI usage more optional based on techboard decision:
http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-January/123519.html

The intention with using RTE_NEXT_ABI was to provide more information
to the user about planned changes, and force developer to think more in
coding level. Since RTE_NEXT_ABI become optional, now the preferred way
to do this is, if possible, sending changes, described in deprecation
notice, as a separate patch and reference it in deprecation notice.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
2019-03-27 14:22:44 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
ac8342a8a6 doc: clean ABI/API policy guide
The original document written from the point of ABI versioning but later
additions make document confusing, convert document into a ABI/API
policy documentation and organize the document in subsections:
- ABI/API Deprecation
- Experimental APIs
- Library versioning
- ABI versioning

Aim to clarify confusion between deprecation versioned ABI and overall
ABI/API deprecation, also ABI versioning and Library versioning by
organizing the sections.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
2019-03-27 14:21:52 +01:00
Kevin Traynor
1cedac2da1 doc: update DPDK LTS versions
Support for 16.11 has ended. 17.11 and 18.11 are the current LTSs.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
2019-03-27 14:21:47 +01:00
Michael Santana
99889bd852 ci: introduce Travis builds for GitHub repositories
GitHub is a service used by developers to store repositories.  GitHub
provides service integrations that allow 3rd party services to access
developer repositories and perform actions.  One of these services is
Travis-CI, a simple continuous integration platform.

This series introduces the ability for any github mirrors of the DPDK
project, including developer mirrors, to kick off builds under the
travis CI infrastructure.  For now, this just means compilation - no
other kinds of automated run exists yet.  In the future, this can be
expanded to execute and report results for any test-suites that might
exist.

This is a simple initial implementation of a travis build for the DPDK
project.  It doesn't require any changes from individual developers to
enable, but will allow those developers who opt-in to GitHub and the
travis service to get automatic builds for every push they make.

The files added under .ci/ exist so that in the future, other CI
support platforms (such as cirrus, appveyor, etc.) could have a common
place to put their requisite scripts without polluting the main tree.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Santana <msantana@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2019-03-26 22:31:40 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
218c4e68c1 mk: use linux and freebsd in config names
Rather than using linuxapp and bsdapp everywhere, we can change things to
use the, more readable, terms "linux" and "freebsd" in our build configs.
Rather than renaming the configs we can just duplicate the existing ones
with the new names using symlinks, and use the new names exclusively
internally. ["make showconfigs" also only shows the new names to keep the
list short] The result is that backward compatibility is kept fully but any
new builds or development can be done using the newer names, i.e.  both
"make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc" and "T=x86_64-native-linux-gcc"
work.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2019-03-12 23:05:06 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
5fbc1d498f build/freebsd: rename macro BSDPAPP to FREEBSD
Rename the macro and all instances in DPDK code, but keep a copy of
the old macro defined for legacy code linking against DPDK

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2019-03-12 23:01:14 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
742bde12f3 build/linux: rename macro from LINUXAPP to LINUX
Rename the macro to make things shorter and more comprehensible. For
both meson and make builds, keep the old macro around for backward
compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2019-03-12 17:31:22 +01:00
Vipin Varghese
3fe9b93c8d doc: add meson build to contributing guide
Patches has to be validated for meson devtool script for
code and document changes. Updating documentation for meson
build steps in checking Compilation category.

Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
Tested-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
2019-02-27 12:40:20 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
b543d1a715 compat: merge compat library into EAL
Since compat library is only a single header, we can easily move it into
the EAL common headers instead of tracking it separately. The downside of
this is that it becomes a little more difficult to have any libs that are
built before EAL depend on it. Thankfully, this is not a major problem as
the only library which uses rte_compat.h and is built before EAL (kvargs)
already has the path to the compat.h header file explicitly called out as
an include path.

However, to ensure that we don't hit problems later with this, we can add
EAL common headers folder to the global include list in the meson build
which means that all common headers can be safely used by all libraries, no
matter what their build order.

As a side-effect, this patch also fixes an issue with building on BSD using
meson, due to compat lib no longer needing to be listed as a dependency.

Fixes: a8499f65a1d1 ("log: add missing experimental tag")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Tested-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2019-02-25 16:03:31 +01:00
Rami Rosen
63a71926e9 doc: add dependency for PDF in contributing guide
There is a missing depenency for building docs with "make doc-guides-pdf".
This causes it to break with "make[3]: latexmk: Command not found". This
was observed and reported in https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182
This patch fixes this issue by adding the latexmk package dependency in
sub-section 4.3.1 of the contributing guide ("Dependencies").

Bugzilla ID: 182
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
2019-01-28 01:59:01 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
43d162bc16 fix dpdk.org URLs
The DPDK website has a new URL scheme since June 2018.

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2018-11-26 20:19:24 +01:00
David Hunt
9e0e4a00df doc: suggest to keep doc and code in same patch
Add a paragraph to the patch contribution guide suggesting that developers
keep doc updates in the same patch as the code, rather than one big
doc update as the final patch in a patch set.

Signed-off-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2018-11-24 21:46:54 +01:00
Marko Kovacevic
904ffb2e96 doc: add note about bool into coding style
Added a note into the coding style to
highlight the use of a bool within a struct

Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2018-11-24 21:43:22 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
5f63d635a1 doc: replace doxygen example in contribution guide
The provided example of doxygen header is about a deprecated function.
It is replaced by rte_spinlock_trylock() which is small and
good enough for the purpose.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
2018-10-26 22:14:05 +02:00
Ferruh Yigit
9631253ffa drivers/net: fix log type string
Syntax for log type string is "pmd.<subsystem>.<driver>[.<pmd_local>]"

Fixes: 3e92fd4e4ec0 ("net/bnxt: use dynamic log type")
Fixes: d7f4562ab10a ("net/bonding: convert to dynamic logging")
Fixes: 6086ab3bb3d2 ("net/vdev_netvsc: introduce Hyper-V platform driver")
Fixes: 7db274b9ada2 ("doc: describe dynamic logging format")
Fixes: a10a988a0ba6 ("net/dpaa2: support dynamic logging")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
2018-10-11 18:53:49 +02:00
Tiwei Bie
71ac639971 doc: update commands for virtio-user
Update the doc for virtio-user to use the latest testpmd
parameters and commands.

Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
2018-09-28 01:41:03 +02:00
Hemant Agrawal
77c79de08c doc: add SPDX and copyright to contributing guide
Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-08-09 22:48:10 +02:00
Shreyansh Jain
de7ceb7525 doc: move and update experimental API process
Experimental API text has been moved into a sub-section of ABI Policy.
A paragraph has been added to explain the process for removal of an
experimental tag.

Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-08-09 18:35:03 +02:00
Kevin Traynor
56c7ddc138 doc: add default that all fixes should be backported
Set the starting point that all commits on master branch
with Fixes tag should be backported to relevant stable/LTS
branches, and explain that the submitter may indicate it is
not suitable for backport.

Of course there will be exceptions that will crop up from time
to time that need discussion, so also add a sentence for that.

This is to ensure that there is consistency between what is
backported to stable/LTS branches, remove some subjectivity
as to what constitutes "a fix" and avoid possible conflicts
for future backports.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-07-11 23:01:16 +02:00
Marko Kovacevic
6561392c61 doc: add guidelines for bugzilla reference in patch
Added contribution guideline for adding tags
when sending patches that have been raised on
Bugzilla

Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2018-05-29 17:27:05 +02:00
Luca Boccassi
d53f61b6fe doc: advise to specify LTS branch when backporting patches
We have many stable branches being maintained at the same time, and
sometimes it's not clear which branch a patch is being backported for.
Note in the guidelines that it should be specified via the cover letter,
annotation or using --subject-prefix.
Also note to send only to stable@dpdk.org, not dev@dpdk.org.

Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-05-25 09:53:36 +02:00
Marko Kovacevic
f16e13c991 doc: add contribution guidelines for stable tags
Added contribution guideline for adding stable
tags when sending patches all fix patches to the
master branch that are candidates for backporting

Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-05-24 18:48:58 +02:00
Marko Kovacevic
d687e0d0be doc: add contribution guidelines for coverity tags
Added contribution guideline for adding tags
when sending patches that have been raised by
coverity

Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-05-24 18:48:54 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger
7f0bb634a1 log: add ability to match log type with globbing
Regular expressions are not the best way to match a hierarchical
pattern like dynamic log levels. And the separator for dynamic
log levels is period which is the regex wildcard character.

A better solution is to use filename matching 'globbing' so
that log levels match like file paths. For compatibility,
use colon to separate pattern match style arguments. For
example:
	--log-level 'pmd.net.virtio.*:debug'

This also makes the documentation match what really happens
internally.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
2018-04-25 12:14:37 +02:00
Ciara Power
3a99ac9d62 doc: add maintainers section to the contributors guide
Add a maintainers section to the contributors guide to have a low tech
location to check/link to the current maintainers. This file is included
dynamically from the MAINTAINERS file in the root directory of the DPDK
source when the docs are built. This also allows us to link to the file
from other sections of the docs.

Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2018-02-14 00:23:25 +01:00
Moti Haimovsky
8b9bd0efe0 app/testpmd: disable Rx VLAN offloads by default
Removed the hardcoded preconfigured Rx VLAN offload configuration
from testpmd and changed the Rx offload command line parameters from
disable to enable.

It has been decided by the Technical Board that testers who wish to
use these offloads will now have to explicitly write them in the
command-line when running testpmd.
The agreement is to keep two exceptions enabled by default in 18.02:
Rx CRC strip and Tx fast free.

Motivation:
Some PMDs such at the mlx4 may not implement all the offloads.
After the offload API rework assuming no offload is enabled by default,
  commit ce17eddefc20 ("ethdev: introduce Rx queue offloads API")
  commit cba7f53b717d ("ethdev: introduce Tx queue offloads API") trying
to enable a not supported offload is clearly an error which will cause
configuration failing.

Considering that testpmd is an application to test the PMD, it should
not fail on a configuration which was not explicitly requested.
The behavior of this test application is then turned to an opt-in
model.

Signed-off-by: Moti Haimovsky <motih@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-01-31 21:45:33 +01:00
Harry van Haaren
7db274b9ad doc: describe dynamic logging format
This commit adds a section to the DPDK style guide to set
the dynamic logging formatting naming scheme.

Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2018-01-31 09:22:40 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
b114af1603 build: remove architecture flag as default C flag
Any flags added to the project args are automatically added to all builds,
both native and cross-compiled. This is not what we want for the -march
flag as a valid -march for the cross-compile is not valid for pmdinfogen
which is a native-build tool.

Instead we store the march flag as a variable, and add it to the default
cflags for all libs, drivers, examples, etc. This will allow pmdinfogen to
compile successfully in a cross-compilation environment.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
2018-01-30 21:58:59 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
610beca42e build: remove library special cases
The EAL and compat libraries were special-cases in the library build
process, the former because of it's complexity, and the latter because
it only consists of a single header file.

By reworking the EAL meson.build files, we can eliminate the need for it to
be a special case, by having it build up and return the list of sources,
headers, and objects and return those to the higher level build file. This
should also simplify the building of EAL, as we can eliminate a number of
meson.build files that would no longer be needed, and have fewer, but
larger meson.build files (9 now vs 14 previous) - thereby making the logic
easier to follow and items easier to find.

Once done, we can pull eal into the main library loop, with some
modifications to support it. Compat can also be pulled it once we add in a
check to handle the case of an empty sources list.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
2018-01-30 21:58:59 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
44a6dface1 doc: describe how to add new components
Add to the contributors guide details on how to add libraries and drivers
and integrate them with the DPDK build system(s).

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
2018-01-30 21:51:45 +01:00
Neil Horman
2843cdd93a doc: add ABI experimental tag in versioning guide
Document the need to add the __experimental tag to appropriate functions

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-01-29 23:35:29 +01:00
Thierry Herbelot
8f87ba7015 fix typos
Repeated occurrences of 'the'.

The change was obtained using the following command:

  sed -i "s;the the ;the ;" `git grep -l "the "`

Signed-off-by: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@6wind.com>
2018-01-11 18:26:46 +01:00
Hemant Agrawal
a4862c9e1a license: introduce SPDX identifiers
The DPDK uses the Open Source BSD-3-Clause license for the core libraries
and drivers. The kernel components are naturally GPLv2 licensed.

Many of the files in the DPDK source code contain the full text of the
applicable license. For example, most of the BSD-3-Clause files contain a
full copy of the BSD-3-Clause license text.

Including big blocks of License headers in all files blows up the source
code with mostly redundant information.  An additional problem is that even
the same licenses are referred to by a number of slightly varying text
blocks (full, abbreviated, different indentation, line wrapping and/or
white space, with obsolete address information, ...) which makes validation
and automatic processing a nightmare.

To make this easier, DPDK uses of a single line reference to
Unique License Identifiers in source files as defined by the Linux
Foundation's SPDX project https://spdk.org.

Adding license information in this fashion, rather than adding full license
text, can be more efficient for developers; decreases errors; and improves
automated detection of licenses. The current set of valid, predefined SPDX
identifiers is set forth on the SPDX License List at
https://spdx.org/licenses/.

For example, to label a file as subject to the BSD-3-Clause license,
the following text would be used as the top line of the file.

SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

Note: Any new file contributions in DPDK shall adhere to the above scheme.
It is also recommended to replace or at least amend the existing license
text in the code with SPDX-License-Identifiers.

Any exception to DPDK IP policies shall be approved by DPDK tech board and
DPDK Governing Board. Steps for any exception approval:
1. Mention the appropriate license identifier form SPDX. If the license is
   not listed in SPDX Licenses. It is the submitters responsibiliity to get
   it first listed.
2. Get the required approval from the DPDK Technical Board. Technical board
   may advise the author to check alternate means first. If no other
   alternatives are found and the merit of the contributions are important
   for DPDK's mission, it may decide on such exception with two-thirds vote
   of the members.
3. Technical board then approach Governing board for such limited approval
   for the given contribution only.

Any approvals shall be documented in "licenses/exceptions.txt" with record
dates.

Note: From the legal point of view, this patch is supposed to be only a
change to the textual representation of the license information, but in no
way any change to the actual license terms. With this patch applied, all
files will still be licensed under the same terms they were before.

Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2018-01-04 22:41:38 +01:00
Luca Boccassi
5768fa9de2 doc: mention 17.11 LTS in contributing guide
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2017-11-12 05:40:00 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
43bec6e263 doc: update API/ABI policy
Following agreement at the DPDK Technical Board meeting of 2017-10-13 [1],
update the documentation with the ABI/API policy changes.

[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-October/079961.html

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>
Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2017-11-12 05:20:52 +01:00
Ferruh Yigit
7a62910653 devtools: add script to get maintainers from patch
This is a wrapper to Linux kernel get_maintainer.pl file and only
supports parsing MAINTAINERS file (no git fallback etc..)

Requires DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH devel config option set, please check
devtools/load-devel-config.

DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH should be full path to the get_maintainer.pl
script, like:
DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH=~/linux/scripts/get_maintainer.pl

Can be used individually:
./devtools/get-maintainer.sh <my.patch>

Or via git send-email, to add maintainers automatically:
git send-email --to-cmd ./devtools/get-maintainer.sh \
--cc dev@dpdk.org HEAD -4

Currently there is an ugly workaround to be able to use Linux script out
of the kernel tree, later better method can replace it.

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
2017-11-08 00:38:46 +01:00