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

[Robert Walsh]

Roland Dreier wrote:
>     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.

Sigh - I wasn't aware this involved API changes, though.