Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Provide option to set Major ABI version

2017-03-17 Thread Jan Blunck
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon > wrote: >> >> Not sure about how it can be used in distributions, but it does not hurt >> to provide the config option. >> Are you going to link applications against a fixed DPDK versi

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Provide option to set Major ABI version

2017-03-17 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Not sure about how it can be used in distributions, but it does not hurt > to provide the config option. > Are you going to link applications against a fixed DPDK version for > every libraries? > Kind of yes - we can still update "inside"

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Provide option to set Major ABI version

2017-03-16 Thread Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-01 15:35, Jan Blunck: > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Christian Ehrhardt > wrote: > > Downstreams might want to provide different DPDK releases at the same > > time to support multiple consumers of DPDK linked against older and newer > > sonames. > > > > Also due to the interdependencie

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Provide option to set Major ABI version

2017-03-01 Thread Jan Blunck
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > Downstreams might want to provide different DPDK releases at the same > time to support multiple consumers of DPDK linked against older and newer > sonames. > > Also due to the interdependencies that DPDK libraries can have applications

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: Provide option to set Major ABI version

2017-03-01 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Downstreams might want to provide different DPDK releases at the same time to support multiple consumers of DPDK linked against older and newer sonames. Also due to the interdependencies that DPDK libraries can have applications might end up with an executable space in which multiple versions of a