Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/3] eal: disable function versioning on Windows

From: Fady Bader <fady@mellanox.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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	Tasnim Bashar <tbashar@mellanox.com>,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/3] eal: disable function versioning on Windows
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 07:02:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR05MB5872CE8F1FEAA573AE72DEDCBF690@VI1PR05MB5872.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2020 11:24 PM
> To: Fady Bader <fady@mellanox.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Tasnim Bashar <tbashar@mellanox.com>; Tal Shnaiderman
> <talshn@mellanox.com>; Yohad Tor <yohadt@mellanox.com>;
> dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com; harini.ramakrishnan@microsoft.com;
> ocardona@microsoft.com; pallavi.kadam@intel.com; ranjit.menon@intel.com;
> olivier.matz@6wind.com; arybchenko@solarflare.com; mdr@ashroe.eu;
> nhorman@tuxdriver.com
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/3] eal: disable function versioning on
> Windows
> 
> 05/07/2020 15:47, Fady Bader:
> > Function versioning implementation is not supported by Windows.
> > Function versioning was disabled on Windows.
> 
> was -> is
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Fady Bader <fady@mellanox.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_eal/include/rte_function_versioning.h | 2 +-
> >  lib/meson.build                                  | 5 +++++
> >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> As suggested by Ray, we should add a note in the documentation about the ABI
> compatibility. Because we have no function versioning, we cannot ensure ABI
> compatibility on Windows.
> 
> I recommend adding this text in doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst under
> "Limitations":
> "
> The :doc:`../contributing/abi_policy` cannot be respected for Windows.
> Minor ABI versions may be incompatible
> because function versioning is not supported on Windows.
> "

Ok, I'll send a new patch with the changes soon.

> 