[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] OFED meeting sumary on June 02, 08

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 15:25 Tue 03 Jun     , Tziporet Koren wrote:
> 
> 4. Backward compatibility of libraries:
>    Problem: Qlogic found late in OFED 1.3 release process that one of
> opensm libraries had 
>             changed the binary API, and this brake some of the
> customers' application.
>    Decisions: 
>    1. Need to preserve binary API of libraries and not break backward
> compatibility (even if it requires extra efforts)

It could be impossible for some libraries.

>    2. In case binary API must be changed, then both versions will be
> included in OFED to prevent broken applications.

Any ideas about how it should be done (technically)?

Sasha