> > For good reasons there are no abstract interface specifications in Linux > kernel. > > I was just wondering if it is good to leave concrete attributes which > > are not > > (yet?) reported at random. It is obviously working okay today for your > > environment. > > But memset zero everything you don't care about today might be just > > safe to detect an unexpected interpretation of those fields in the future? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Bernard. > > Thank you for the pointer. > > I'm making the changes as you suggested. > > Long Went through the code that IB upper layer calls query_xxx into lower driver. It seems the upper layer always zero out the values (or set them) before calling. I think we should be safe for the code as is.
