So far, the users of the old non-pooled API were in charge of allocating
the struct mgcp_client_conf by themselves, then init them using
mgcp_client_conf_init(). This causes a major problem, since it makes it
difficult to extend the struct mgcp_client_conf structure to add new
features, which may happen frequently.
The MGW pool API doesn't have this problem, because the struct
mgcp_client_conf is allocated as parts/fields of private structs defined
in internal headers. Only pointers to it are used in public headers.
Since it still has to internally initialize the conf fields, we still
need the API to initialize it internally, and hence why is it marked as
DEPRECTED_OUTSIDE instead of DEPRECATED.
While some programs already moved to the new MGW pool infrastructure,
they still use the old APIs to accomodate for old config files in order
to be back-compatible, hence most users of libosmo-mgcp-client are
affected.
Introduce an API to allocate the conf struct internally, which, while
still breaking the ABI, allows for a more relaxed update path where it's
possible to extend the struct mgcp_client_conf at the end.
Eventually the non pooled API should be gone and the struct
mgcp_client_conf can then be moved to a private header, but for now
let's add this small feature to avoid major ABI breakage.
Change-Id: Iba0853ed099a32cf1dde78c17e1b34343db41cfc
Pau Espin
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