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

2017-01-09 Thread Doug Ledford
On Sun, 2017-01-08 at 17:54 +0200, Saeed Mahameed wrote: > From: Eli Cohen > > 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 throu

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

2017-01-08 Thread Saeed Mahameed
From: Eli Cohen 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 t