Re: [for-next V2 08/10] IB/mlx5: Allow future extension of libmlx5 input data

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On Sun, 2017-01-08 at 17:54 +0200, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> From: Eli Cohen <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Current check requests that new fields in struct
> mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext_req_v2 that are not known to the driver be
> zero.
> This was introduced so new libraries passing additional information
> to
> the kernel through struct mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext_req_v2 will be
> notified
> by old kernels that do not support their request by failing the
> operation. This schecme is problematic since it requires libmlx5 to 
                  ^ Typo



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