netdev - [PATCH bpf v2 2/2] bpf, libbpf: clarify bump in libbpf version info

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Message-Id: <20190323004911.604-3-daniel@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Sat, 23 Mar 2019 01:49:11 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     ast@...nel.org
Cc:     sdf@...gle.com, bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: [PATCH bpf v2 2/2] bpf, libbpf: clarify bump in libbpf version info

The current documentation suggests that we would need to bump the
libbpf version on every change. Lets clarify this a bit more and
reflect what we do today in practice, that is, bumping it once per
development cycle.

Fixes: 76d1b894c515 ("libbpf: Document API and ABI conventions")
Reported-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
---
 tools/lib/bpf/README.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst b/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst
index 5788479..cef7b77 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ starting from ``0.0.1``.
 
 Every time ABI is being changed, e.g. because a new symbol is added or
 semantic of existing symbol is changed, ABI version should be bumped.
+This bump in ABI version is at most once per kernel development cycle.
 
 For example, if current state of ``libbpf.map`` is:
 
-- 
2.9.5