Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2017-06-21

Re: [PATCH rdma-next 13/19] RDMA/netlink: Add netlink device definitions to UAPI

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From: Jason Gunthorpe <hidden>
Date: 2017-06-21 16:33:23
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:05:22AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
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 	RDMA_NL_IWCM,
 	RDMA_NL_RSVD,
 	RDMA_NL_LS,	/* RDMA Local Services */
+	/*
+	 * RDMA_NL_I40IW not in use and it was added here by mistake,
+	 * but we need to keep it anyway, because it is UAPI and for
+	 * unknown reasons, someone in the field decided to replace "5"
+	 * with this define.
+	 */
 	RDMA_NL_I40IW,
Since this doesn't do anything, never did anything, I think you should
just delete it. Anything in userspace that refers to this name is
unconditionally broken and a compile failure is the better choice.

Jason
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