[openib-general] RE: [dat-discussions] comments on DAT registry in OpenIB

[James Lentini]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Tom Duffy wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:19 -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
>> Source compatability for an existing Provider is *not* maintained 
>> by OpenIB kDAPL because there are fields *missing* from the 
>> Provider Info. That *will* result in a compilation error.
>
> I have no problem with there being a header file with allows for source
> compatibility.  This header would be maintained by OpenIB, but never
> included in upstream.  I think James has a start of such a header called
> kdat.h.  It needs a bunch more to make it follow the DAT conventions.

Tom is correct. The kdat.h file is intended as a way to hide as many 
(ideally all) differences.