On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:17:58PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Doug and I have both stated we don't want to see so many > single-provider APIs and churn in libibverbs. This was designed to be > a generic API that all providers can implement. > > The responsibility falls on you to make sure that it works > universally. Compat is one option. > > This is also why it is necessary to get the other provider authors to > say this works on their hardware, because they *all* ultimately have > to implement it. > > I don't think many people realize this yet. > Jason, You are over-estimating the number of other providers who are interesting in libibverbs in 2014-2016. According to git log [1] in these years, I see only one major contributor to this library. [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/libs/infiniband/libibverbs.git/log/ Thanks
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