[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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