On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 12:53, Roland Dreier wrote: > > The only question is what happens with apps which enable the pkey index > > mode but run on an older kernel which does not support this. They would > > get an error back (-ENOIOCTLCMD) from user_mad. They could either error > > out on this or continue on depending on what the app wants to do. > > Yes, but I think that is purely up to the application. Userspace > knows about the new interface, the kernel doesn't, and the application > has to decide how important the pkey_index stuff is. > > Given that we don't have a time machine (so the behavior of old > kernels is frozen) I don't see anything we can do to make this any better.
Agreed. This is an app and/or library issue. -- Hal > - R. _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
