On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:17:58PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Doug and I have both stated we don't want to see so many
> single-provider APIs and churn in libibverbs. This was designed to be
> a generic API that all providers can implement.
> 
> The responsibility falls on you to make sure that it works
> universally. Compat is one option.
> 
> This is also why it is necessary to get the other provider authors to
> say this works on their hardware, because they *all* ultimately have
> to implement it.
> 
> I don't think many people realize this yet.
> 

Jason,
You are over-estimating the number of other providers who are
interesting in libibverbs in 2014-2016.

According to git log [1] in these years, I see only one major
contributor to this library.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/libs/infiniband/libibverbs.git/log/

Thanks