[openib-general] Re: umad abi 2 v 3 and multicast join failed

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:29:09AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Grant Grundler <iod00d at hp.com>:
> > Subject: Re: umad abi 2 v 3 and multicast join failed
> > 
> > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:07:25PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > > In general, given that kernels 2.6.11 and 2.6.12 are shipping with ABI
> > > version 2, does it make sense to avoid problems like this by keeping
> > > the old userspace code around and having the library decide at runtime
> > > which ABI to use?
> > 
> > Only if you want to continue providing fixes for 2.6.11 and 2.6.12.
> > It would be nice if someone put together a source snapshot that
> > would work with those releases. But I'm not sure how to
> > make that available to some random person who is using it.
> 
> Making a subversion branch could be one way to start.
> 
> Actually, it would be quite useful if whatever is submitted to mainline
> is kept on some subversion branch, too.
> Roland - would that disrupt your development process a lot?

What's the status on getting ABI ver 3 into 2.6.1X ?