On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I won't say never, but this is what people want. Bumping the soname is > seen as too difficult now. Gotcha. Ok, so my patch is a non-starter. >>> Thoughts: >>> - 1024 and 3 both mean 1024, the library must accept both values, >>> it should only ever return 3 though. >> >> Why? If the caller can pass in 1024, it seems like 1024 should be >> able to be passed out, too. > > If the caller passes in 1024 then it is probably OK to return 1024, > but you have to keep track of that specially. That seems more complex > than just always returning 3. 3 is guarenteed compatible with all > users. > > Old users will test directly against 3. > New users will call ibv_from_mtu which tests against 3 as well. Ok. I'll take a to-do to work up a new patch -- probably not until next week. -- Jeff Squyres [email protected] For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
