On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 10:36 AM Andrew Rybchenko
[off-list ref] wrote:

@David, could you take a look at the ABI breakage warnings for
the patch. May we ignore it since ABI looks backward
compatible? Or should be marked as a minor change ABI
which is backward compatible with DPDK_21?

The whole eth_dev_shared_data area has always been reset to 0 at the
first port allocation in a dpdk application life.
Subsequent calls to rte_eth_dev_release_port() reset every port
eth_dev->data to 0.

This bit flag is added in a hole of the structure, and it is
set/manipulated internally of ethdev.

So unless the application was doing something nasty like highjacking
this empty hole in the structure, I see no problem with the change wrt
ABI.


I wonder if libabigail is too strict on this report.
Or maybe there is some extreme consideration on what a compiler could
do about this hole...
Dodji?


For now, we can waive the warning.
I'll look into the exception rule to add.


-- 
David Marchand