Re: rdma-core stable releases

Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
2017-11-13T10:17:36Z

Le 13/11/2017 à 11:11, Amrani, Ram a écrit :
>> When I mean no ABI changes I mean that anything compiled against rdma-core X.Y also compiles (and and run without
>> recompiling) against X.Z with Z >= Y.
>> This is very important for distro maintenance. You cannot break your user code just to add a fix.
> "compiled against" implies an application.
> We are talking about the kernel/user ABI as well, right?

I was talking about the application side of things.
For the kernel side, any rdma-core version is supposed to work against any kernel so as long as it's still true after applying the fix, I don't see much of a risk there.

Nicolas