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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: New providers in rdma-core
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:39:13 -0700
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 07:18:04PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I want to remind you that latest kernel is exposing different vendor
> specific structures (include/uapi/rdma/*-abi.,h) and new coming user
> space drivers should use these headers directly and not copy/paste the
> code from them.
> 
> In the future, we will convert already accepted drivers too.

Requiring installed super updtodate kernel headers isn't going to
help development.  It would be good to keep a copy of the kernel
headers in the rdma-core repo, similar to what most kernel tools
tied to bleeding edge ABIs do.
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