From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [rdma-next 01/33] Revert "IB/core: Add flow control to the portmapper netlink calls" Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 09:58:56 -0600 Message-ID: <20170802155856.GA21208@obsidianresearch.com> References: <20170801120536.540-1-leon@kernel.org> <20170801120536.540-2-leon@kernel.org> <20170801133832.GA11812@ctung-MOBL3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20170801141023.GM13672@mtr-leonro.local> <20170801141842.GA1808@ctung-MOBL3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20170801151511.GA13376@ctung-MOBL3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20170801195840.GC31205@obsidianresearch.com> <20170802034438.GV13672@mtr-leonro.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170802034438.GV13672-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Chien Tin Tung , Christopher Lameter , Doug Ledford , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 06:44:38AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 01:58:40PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > I'm not sure why there is so much noise about this - yes, iwpmd is > > really weird, but it is a UAPI, we can't change it and we can't demand > > they change. > > If you claim that it is UAPI change, we MUST revert this patch, because > reverted patch CHANGED UAPI. That is not how I read it.. The UAPI was intended to be lossless and there was a kernel bug that made it more lossy than expected, that is what that original patch was addressing. 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