[ewg] [PATCH v4] IB Core: RAW ETH support

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Jun 23 10:31:52 PDT 2010


 > There is no qp type IBV_QPT_RAW_ETY in user space (at least not in the definitions
 > coming with libibverbs). In fact, libibverbs that comes with OFED defines (in verbs.h)
 > a qp type called IBV_QPT_RAW_ETT which equals to 7.
 > The patch that is under discussion here adds a new qp type IB_QPT_RAW_ETH and equals it to 7
 > to match the definition in user space. This indeed changes the value of IB_QPT_RAW_ETY to 8
 > but I don't see who can be affected since
 > 1. No user space program that uses IB_QPT_RAW_ETY exists
 > 2. kernel is compiled as one piece of code.

Why renumber the _ETY enum?  Maybe it doesn't break anything serious but
why risk it?
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