[openfabrics-ewg] [Fwd: [openib-general] ibv_driver_init renamed?]

[Roland Dreier]

    Robert> Somewhere between OFED-1.1-RC3 and -RC4, the
    Robert> ibv_driver_init function was renamed to
    Robert> openib_driver_init.  We at QLogic were aware this change
    Robert> was being made and so now our user verbs support does not
    Robert> work at all in RC4.  Why did something like this happen
    Robert> between two release candidates?

Because OFED 1.1-rc2 and -rc3 inadvertently contained libibverbs code
taken from the unstable unreleased libibverbs 1.1 tree.  -rc4 reverted
back to the stable libibverbs 1.0 code.

http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219 has more details.

 - R.