On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 01:23:03PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 26.01.2017, 09:35 -0800 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:13:25AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > I missed asking for this when the ibv_cmd_create_ah@IBVERBS_1.4 > > > patch > > > was merged, but before we release 13 we need to drop all the > > > ibv_cmd_* > > > entry points from the public headers so that nothing outside rdma- > > > core > > > can link to these symbols. > > > > A good thing would be to move all these symbols into a > > @IBVERBS_PRIVATE > > namespace, similar to what glibc does for it's internal library only > > exports. > > I am fine with moving the private symbols into a IBVERBS_PRIVATE_XX > namespace as long as all consumers of the private symbols are build > from the rdma-core source package. I need to check if there is a > package in Debian that uses the private symbols. > So either go forward (extra namespace for private symbols) or revert > the ABI breakage (for the time being). The discussion on this list seem > to prefer the first option. Yes. We must implement one of the two options before releasing '13' I have sent patches on github to do the first.. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
