question about in-tree vs out-of-tree Broadcom ROCE drivers.

[Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I got your address from the Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file, I was 
wondering if you could clear something up?

As far as I can tell, the in-tree driver at 
drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re uses a BNXT_RE_ABI_VERSION value of 1, as 
defined in include/uapi/rdma/bnxt_re-abi.h.

On the other hand, the libbnxt_re-228.0.133.0 package and the 
bnxt_re-228.0.133.0 driver embedded within 
https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/NXE_Linux_Installer-228.1.111.0 are using 
a BNXT_RE_ABI_VERSION of 6.

This seems to indicate that the in-tree kernel driver cannot be used 
with the official version of libbnxt_re as distributed by Broadcom.   Is 
this correct?   If so, is there a separate version of libbnxt_re 
intended to be used with the in-kernel driver?

Thanks,

Chris Friesen