[ofa-general] Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] 2.6.22 or 23 ib:addpathrecord cache

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 02:16, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Quoting Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>:
> > Subject: RE: [ofa-general] Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] 2.6.22 or 23 ib:addpathrecord cache
> > 
> > >That's a bit hard to say without knowing what the standard is :)
> > >But maybe you do know.
> > 
> > The cache does PathRecord GetTable queries and InformInfo/Notice subscriptions
> > according to the wire protocol given in the spec (minus any potential bugs).
> 
> Sure. But how that will interact with whatever extensions are going into
> 1.2.1 is hard for me to guess.

Anything in 1.2.1 is backward compatible with 1.2 and all new features
are options and are identified by option bits as is the "standard" for
adding features in a backward compatible manner.

-- Hal