[openfabrics-ewg] OFED-1.1-rc4 is ready

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Sep 12 23:25:18 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at pathscale.com>:
> > the ibv_driver_init function was changed to openib_driver_init. 
>
> By the way, I find it unsettling that the current libibverbs internal
> ABI allows silent breakage like this that cannot be detected except at
> runtime, and then only when the right hardware is present.
> 
> Mind you, I don't have any better suggestions in mind (at least not at
> 10:30pm).
> 
> But I worry about the possibility this leaves open for botched field
> upgrades breaking userspace in you-don't-find-out-until-it's-too-late
> ways when libibverbs 1.1 starts being used.

libipathverbs can simply export both ibv_driver_init and
openib_driver_init like libmthca does, that's what we'll do for OFED.

Or maybe Doug here can come up with some symbol versioning trick.
Dough?

-- 
MST




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