devtools: avoid explicit experimental build flag

-DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API is always set for in-tree compilation since
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=acec04c4b2f5

Warn people not to copy/paste this flag that was needed before.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index 6966922e46068c2d5fe6ae256721a29a6c5214a7..0b94a31690d777610a5515c4da9b171f79b653a8 100755 (executable)
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
@@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ check_forbidden_additions() { # <patch>
                -f $(dirname $(readlink -f $0))/check-forbidden-tokens.awk \
                "$1" || res=1
 
+       # forbid use of experimental build flag except in examples
+       awk -v FOLDERS='lib drivers app' \
+               -v EXPRESSIONS='-DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API allow_experimental_apis' \
+               -v RET_ON_FAIL=1 \
+               -v MESSAGE='Using experimental build flag for in-tree compilation' \
+               -f $(dirname $(readlink -f $0))/check-forbidden-tokens.awk \
+               "$1" || res=1
+
        # svg figures must be included with wildcard extension
        # because of png conversion for pdf docs
        awk -v FOLDERS='doc' \