From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 00/10] Hardware tag matching support Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:06:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20161013170641.GA9094@infradead.org> References: <1472382050-25908-1-git-send-email-leon@kernel.org> <20161007145620.GV9282@leon.nu> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB093986@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <6259953b-27fe-77c9-ea90-af744f188671@redhat.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB095429@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB095429-P5GAC/sN6hkd3b2yrw5b5LfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Hefty, Sean" Cc: Doug Ledford , Leon Romanovsky , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:02:13PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > I doubt they have, but they change the kernel to user library API. I'm > > not so worried about that since it's entirely under our control. It's > > the user library to application API that I would be more concerned > > with. > > I thought there was an agreement that since verbs implies a hardware implementation, then all kernel to user ABI changes to verbs would go through some external organization, such as the OFVWG, for discussion and approval. Has that changed? What makes OFVWG more qualified to review an ABI than linux-rdma? That beeing said a review by an independent third party in addition to the vensors (intentional plural here!) is important, but I think we can handle that just fine. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html