Re: [for-next V2 08/10] IB/mlx5: Allow future extension of libmlx5 input data
From: Doug Ledford <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-10 04:24:37
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On Sun, 2017-01-08 at 17:54 +0200, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
From: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Current check requests that new fields in struct mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext_req_v2 that are not known to the driver be zero. This was introduced so new libraries passing additional information to the kernel through struct mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext_req_v2 will be notified by old kernels that do not support their request by failing the operation. This schecme is problematic since it requires libmlx5 to
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