Re: [PATCH rdma-core 02/17] verbs: Include rdma/ib_user_verbs.h in kern-abi.h

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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:34:33AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

> > -#define IB_USER_VERBS_CMD_FLAG_EXTENDED		0x80ul
> 
> This define was added to kernel api (rdma/ib_user_verbs.h) in commit
> f21519b23c1b ("IB/core: extended command: an improved infrastructure for uverbs commands")
> 
> It means that this proposed commit won't compile on the systems with
> kernel dated before 2013. I don't think that it is real issue, but worth
> to mention it in commit message/comment.

The very first patch in the series updates the internal copy of the
kernel header to 4.15-rc7 and ensures that systems with old distro
copies use the internal header instead.

Just as we have been doing for other kernel headers for a long time.

So it should build on everything. There are far newer needed symbols
than the one above as well..

Jason
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