[openib-general] OpenSM/osm_log API: Use symbol versions rather than pollutingnamespace

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed Sep 6 08:46:26 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> > > It is an upward compatible change so is low risk.
> > 
> > Not sure what do you mean by upward compatible. This API change does not
> > seem to be backward compatible - won't it break building dependent
> > applications?
> 
> We are talking about 2 different changes. I was responding to your
> comment about the addition of osm_log_init_v2 not being a bug fix, not
> the symver patch on top of that.

I'm mostly concerned with the symver patch. I think we can't do API changes
at this stage in the release process.

-- 
MST




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