doc: reword ABI policy for Windows

Minor changes to the abi policy for windows.

Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>

diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst
index d0affa9e60ca6445923bae6d0a318ad30e734f7f..ab9daf543df96c0dcfbbc2b4d2112a29298f4175 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ General Guidelines
    DPDK 19.11. This policy will be reviewed in 2020, with intention of
    lengthening the stability period. Additional implementation detail can be
    found in the :ref:`release notes <20_02_abi_changes>`.
+   Please note that this policy does not currently apply to the
+   :doc:`Windows build <../windows_gsg/intro>`.
 
 What is an ABI?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

diff --git a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
index 58c62464045eea11bcddd5131b2067860d0bc2c8..4ac7f978288527830ca1a8e3211eb91f7449620f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ compile. Support is being added in pieces so as to limit the overall scope
 of any individual patch series. The goal is to be able to run any DPDK
 application natively on Windows.
 
-The :doc:`../contributing/abi_policy` cannot be respected for Windows.
-Minor ABI versions may be incompatible
-because function versioning is not supported on Windows.
+The :doc:`../contributing/abi_policy` does not apply to the Windows build,
+as function versioning is not supported on Windows,
+therefore minor ABI versions may be incompatible.