[ewg] abi version differences

[Eli Cohen]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 05:38:39PM +0200, Anatoly Greenblatt wrote:
> Hello everyone and welcome back from Sonoma.
> 
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> We found that functionality of a customer application has been broken
> due to a change in abi version (from 7 to 6).
> 
> There were more fields added to the structure but abi version has
> returned to 6. I was wondering if this is a bug or intention.
> 
> I'd appreciate if anyone could comment on this.
> 
>  

After being reviewed by the list, we came to the conclusion that ABI
change was not required. We added the new field in the place that was
formerly reserved. You can find the discussion about this here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg01762.html