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| author |   Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2017-11-08 14:15:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2017-11-08 14:45:54 +0000 |
| commit | 055c52583a2794da8ba1e85a48cce3832372b12f (patch) | |
| tree | 8ceb1cb78fbb46a0f341f8ee24feb3c6b5540013 /doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst | |
| parent | f239aed5e674965691846e8ce3f187dd47523689 (diff) | |
New upstream version 17.11-rc3
Change-Id: I6a5baa40612fe0c20f30b5fa773a6cbbac63a685
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst index 8aaf370d..8d0fdb77 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.rst @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ General Guidelines #. The modification of symbols can generally be managed with versioning #. The removal of symbols generally is an ABI break and requires bumping of the LIBABIVER macro +#. Updates to the minimum hardware requirements, which drop support for hardware which + was previously supported, should be treated as an ABI change. What is an ABI -------------- @@ -77,6 +79,13 @@ for significant reasons, such as performance enhancements. ABI breakage due to changes such as reorganizing public structure fields for aesthetic or readability purposes should be avoided. +.. note:: + + Updates to the minimum hardware requirements, which drop support for hardware + which was previously supported, should be treated as an ABI change, and + follow the relevant deprecation policy procedures as above: 3 acks and + announcement at least one release in advance. + Examples of Deprecation Notices ------------------------------- |