From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 2/6] IB/uverbs: Enable QP creation which is associated to underlay QP Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 09:26:24 -0600 Message-ID: <20170605152624.GB20182@obsidianresearch.com> References: <20170530071602.8139-1-leon@kernel.org> <20170530071602.8139-3-leon@kernel.org> <20170530073352.GA1838@nanopsycho> <1496583794.7171.134.camel@redhat.com> <20170604135122.GC1910@nanopsycho.orion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170604135122.GC1910-6KJVSR23iU488b5SBfVpbw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jiri Pirko Cc: Doug Ledford , Leon Romanovsky , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Yishai Hadas List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 03:51:22PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > I understand all the reasons why this breakage should not cause any > harm, don't get me wrong Doug. It's just, it is a breakage, no matter > how pink you paint it :) Either the uapi is guaranteed to be backward > compatible, or not. Nothing in between. Just saying... The uapi is *binary* compatible, not necessarily source compatible at the kernel header level, which is something we have been willing to accept. 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