[ewg] Compatibility in OFED

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Mon Jun 2 14:05:13 PDT 2008


On 13:55 Mon 02 Jun     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > 
> > It is hard to promise for 100%. libosmcomp is not a great candidate for
> > stable API (it is even not documented).
> 
> True but it is a library being used by external (out of tree)
> applications.

Ok, good. What should be an issue with recompiling (or alternatively
using old library)?

> > I'm sure that changes were done
> > for a reason and obviously it was published/discussed on the list.
> 
> This looks like the change John is referring to:
> 
> commit d39bf839ee23b22fb0afec9f388d5e350fa60b8e

No, this one is for libopensm.

Guess it is about:

commit 6ec60e1f9ce71c1778df76768e74263af9a204fb
Author: Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 13 09:17:11 2007 -0400

    OpenSM/complib: Update version info fori previous API removals
    
    Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>


AFAIK it was after some obsolete stuff removing. I'm sure that patches
were on the list.

Sasha



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