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From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] eal: add API to align integer to
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 23:45:58 +0530
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Hi Matan,

>
> Got you.
> Looks like you found issue here...
> The experimental tag probably should be in a root .h file.
> Probably, need a fix patch to move it for a different\new .h file.
>
> What do you think?
>

Actually thats just start of the rabbit hole, if we succeed to tag a inline
function in rte_common.h as experimental every lib/driver that uses
rte_common.h (almost everything) needs to have CFLAGS set to
-DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API.

Regards,
Pavan.