Re: Upcoming libibverbs release

Jason Gunthorpe
2016-06-30T19:07:57Z

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 06:17:06PM +0000, Liran Liss wrote:
> > From: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
> > owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Jason Gunthorpe
>
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 08:19:56AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 09:26:38PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > > > > The fundamental question is if it is acceptable for libibverbs to
> > > > > ship a new core provider agnostic API (cq polling) that is
> > > > > optional depending on provider.
> > > > >
> > > > > I say no, that is not acceptable.
> > > >
> > > > I agree - there's no compelling argument that the new calls can't work over
> > all providers.
> > >
> > > I agree too, this is why code is provided and nothing stops from other provider
> > to support it.
> >
> > That isn't what I said, and it isn't what everyone is agreeing with.
> >
> > I said an optinal API is not acceptable to ship.
> >
>
> What?
> Almost every device interface has optional APIs.

re-read what I said. I'm not talking generally, but specifically about
this case.

Jason