RE: rdma-core stable releases

Amrani, Ram
2017-11-13T10:25:33Z

> 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

OK