From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: rdma-core stable releases Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:28:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20171114072817.GQ18825@mtr-leonro.local> References: <20171106182756.GD18802@ziepe.ca> <6012d1c3-cd18-25e8-c5ae-3d678142177b@suse.de> <54347E5A035A054EAE9D05927FB467F9B61778A9@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> <20171110202455.GP18825@mtr-leonro.local> <20171110211448.GF17451@ziepe.ca> <1eba9063-80a4-ad9d-4adf-93770b9ed7c9@suse.de> <20171113070856.GZ18825@mtr-leonro.local> <20171113191311.GG6918@ziepe.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LdJ1tWgGI9xhaWs5" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171113191311.GG6918-uk2M96/98Pc@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: "Amrani, Ram" , Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin , "Davis, Arlin R" , "Kalderon, Michal" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Doug Ledford , "Elior, Ariel" , "Rahman, Ameen" , "Radzi, Amit" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --LdJ1tWgGI9xhaWs5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:13:11PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:47:10AM +0000, Amrani, Ram wrote: > > > It is logical that ABI version changes won't be supported. As well as new features that affect the ABI. > > Still, I would like to have the following fix ability - > > Use a bit in an existing u32, via adding an entry to an existing enum. > > I can imagine this being used as a feature disable/enable. > > No. > > No ABI change means no new symbols in the public header files, no > changes in manual pages and no 'backwards compatible' changes. No > ABI changes at all. > > Only mainline can have ABI changes, and the -stable should be > completely compatible up and down all stable releases. Compiling > against 15.9 should continue to load and work with the same feature > set 100%. +1 This is the whole idea of -stable branch. > > Anything else is madness and people will start to ask for backpointing > features and other crazy things to -stable. > > Jason --LdJ1tWgGI9xhaWs5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAloKmxEACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKcIFxAA0AZsfXGw4W+vFL+QSy/SDTSag8DtXh4eS0cFW9lrHtcVvt+pOE5e4OvZ m1VPKRyMWDwaF83dNFlIEwyHfsJ82sAPRWQij7o3Gg8iLamIkUS80p+ilR3Mi8Ha XPqTko4QhXoSQS6nUjw77yM26zvVX4e0A5zJXf8hqtndmLcRKX8g55x6M5KIDUsU 9DvSvWvW1qVBiDQIJde+Vr1MLYNfHqLHCFhMl+TnGTInoKiTMWSUQPFbnOJ/25N1 Jxusu95gS+17B4KaQF9zxIN5R+OcPtNY/zMbJbMOzXVqjSq0d6Pltekg6v7fznCT Y6Ac7LGDNeR9UMIE6NRHqD+bx3VjmiejoP6txDdVPQgAiSFzYMc8jXH5wOGGwYfn 7/WA/8h7MwiQXhjhybwK0TaueRLn/soWkmUmihZm2ZL06hCt0Dsx3Ekcpw/XHRK8 DmgeXWv5SLuJAE7kBEaKSGg915EI3ozEuvfA3OFvMvvTvtjDx/IRM0Jp+vwm+4Bi bHk3xJiYuUJmsBtOLmJ657SL0XBK9cmJEp4XzsfWlB8sCZqHGHd2RrcWvuVlDSgM IZXBJU2SoECW0E3CmiGKApEAMfCmVITm9qlotdlizdZvTjT5fBtskbGhBVgajtkp wZHW2Mt6Ujmq3wU3vdqSYcqbij+FgqqRRjw83PwiooLAGG91/VE= =EMbg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LdJ1tWgGI9xhaWs5-- -- 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