RE: rdma-core 12 breaks libibverbs ABI

Hefty, Sean
2017-01-27T01:17:21Z

> - Ship libibverbs.rpm with the updated driver and matched libibverbs
> This is pretty easy, I probably would recommend this.

This has issues if there are multiple providers present. Maybe that doesn't happen in non-testing environments. I wonder if the distros would agree with this approach.

> - QA the driver with the libibverbs in the various targetted distro
> releases, as you suggested
> - Ship their fix to the distro and have the distro push the update
>
> It isn't really any different from the problem a vendor would face
> getting the kernel driver updated..

I agree.