Re: [PATCH 07/15] net/liquidio: rename version map after library file name

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 02:09:30PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:

On Tue, 2018-09-11 at 14:06 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:

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On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:04:07PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:

quoted

The library is called librte_pmd_lio, so rename the map file and
set
the name in the meson file so that the built library names with
meson
and legacy makefiles are the same

Fixes: bad475c03fee ("net/liquidio: add to meson build")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <redacted>

Rather than doing this renaming, can we instead add a symlink in the
install phase to map the old name to the new one? I'd like to see the
consistency of directory name, map filename and driver name enforced
strictly in the build system. Having exceptions is a pain.

/Bruce

We could, but the pain gets shifted on packagers then - what about
renaming the directory entirely to net/lio?

For packagers, what sort of ABI compatibility guarantees do you try and
keep between releases. Is this something that just needs a one-release ABI
announcement, as with other ABI changes?

/Bruce