Re: What's the current status with bnxt_re-abi.h

["Pierre-Elliott Bécue" <peb@debian.org>]

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Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> wrote on 12/06/2024 at 18:47:36+0200:

> Hello,
>
> In bnxt_re-abi.h, the abi version mentioned is 1. It's used as it's in
> all libibverbs to determine the min AND max supported ABI.
>
> bnxt_re isn't currently mainlined in the kernel,

Sorry, a word is missing: "Recent bnxt_re isn't currently mainlined"

> and those eager to use
> the driver need to rely on the one provided by broadcom on their
> website.
>
> The thing is, they bumped their ABI version multiple times (current is
> 6). In the current context, one can't use the manually compiled bnxt_re
> driver with libibverbs as any call will error due to the bnxt_re abi
> version being outside of min/max supported abi version.
>
> What's the current situation regarding bnxt_re, should we consider
> libibverb support of bnxt_re as deprecated?
>
> Of course I could have missed something, sorry for that if that's the
> case.
>
> Bests,

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