[ofa-general] Re: IB/core: Add creation flags to QPs

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Wed Mar 26 05:34:25 PDT 2008


Jack Morgenstein wrote:
> This *does* break the ABI.  An older libibverbs will not interpret the qp_type
> in the same way as the new kernel will, so you will get a mish-mash.
>
>   
This breakage is related to ---forward-- compatibility - that is have an 
app built against a new version of libibverbs working with --older-- 
version of libibverbs. I wanted to see that we have backward compatibility.

Is libibverbs protected against such breakage all over the place?

Or.




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