From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: RDMAoE verbs questions Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:16:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20091205041607.GT1966@obsidianresearch.com> References: <209ECE49-3AB9-4E62-B825-54E474321FA6@cisco.com> <20091125001136.GP6188@obsidianresearch.com> <20091130133406.GA32123@mtls03> <20091130190345.GV6188@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Roland Dreier Cc: Eli Cohen , Jeff Squyres , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:03:31PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > then I think legacy apps should be OK (port_attr size doesn't change, > binary compat is still there), and new apps that do check link_layer > should also be OK ... if they use an old library and/or old driver, > they'll see LINK_LAYER_UNSPECIFIED, which means that IBoE is not supported. > > What do you think, does this work? Yeah, that should be fine, quite sneaky indeed.. Maybe zero the whole padding though, for future? Jason -- 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