Re: Re: [PATCH v3 05/11] SIW application interface

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-----"Doug Ledford" <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----

>To: "Bart Van Assche" <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>, "Bernard Metzler"
><bmt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>From: "Doug Ledford" <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: 06/22/2019 12:28AM
>Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v3 05/11] SIW application interface
>
>On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 09:33 -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On 6/20/19 9:21 AM, Bernard Metzler wrote:
>> > diff --git a/include/uapi/rdma/siw-abi.h b/include/uapi/rdma/siw-
>> > abi.h
>> > new file mode 100644
>> > index 000000000000..3dd8071ace7b
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/include/uapi/rdma/siw-abi.h
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
>> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 or BSD-3-Clause */
>> > +
>> > +/* Authors: Bernard Metzler <bmt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> */
>> > +/* Copyright (c) 2008-2019, IBM Corporation */
>> > +
>> > +#ifndef _SIW_USER_H
>> > +#define _SIW_USER_H
>> > +
>> > +#include <linux/types.h>
>> > +
>> > +#define SIW_NODE_DESC_COMMON "Software iWARP stack"
>> 
>> How can the definition of a string like this be useful in an UAPI
>> header
>> file? If user space code doesn't need this string please move this
>> definition away from include/uapi.
>> 
>> > +#define SIW_ABI_VERSION 1
>> 
>> Same question here: how can this definition be useful in an UAPI
>> header
>> file? As you know Linux user space APIs must be backwards
>compatible.
>
>I moved both of these to sw/siw/siw.h instead of the uapi header.
>

Thanks Doug!

Bernard.
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