On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 04:56:01PM -0500, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > This causes the symbol table to look like: > > 208: 000000000000c000 142 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 verbs_register_driver_15@@IBVERBS_PRIVATE_15 > > Which encodes the expected private ABI version inside the symbol name > as well as with the symbol version. > > This ensures that the ABI version is checked even if the linking > environment does not include symbol versions, for instance if an > end user is linking a provider static library to the system dynamic > libibverbs. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > buildlib/config.h.in | 1 + > libibverbs/driver.h | 11 +++++++++++ > libibverbs/libibverbs.map.in | 2 +- > 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Since Leon says people are using static provider libraries we should > do more to make sure they work right. Jason, Can you dumb this down for me? I don't understand the provider static library part. Do you mean an application statically linking in a provider library and dynamically to libibverbs? Why would someone do this? Are there examples of this? Thanks, Chien -- 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
