On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:01:32PM +0800, Liuyixian (Eason) wrote:
>
>
> On 2018/1/21 14:57, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 07:41:03PM +0800, Liuyixian (Eason) wrote:
> >>
> >
> > <...>
> >>
> >> With carefully release-management, there would be no compatibility problem
> >> both for hip06 and hip08.
> >
> > Sorry, for interrupting your discussion, but what does it mean "carefully
> > release-management"?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> Hi Leon,
>
> Here release-management mainly means that our driver (kernel and userspace)
> for hisilicon SoC is released progressively with linux kernel versions. Take
> hip08 for example, our first version Roce driver for hip08 appear in linux
> kernel 4.14, as more and more features are added in, some features may be
> supported only in 4.16. I call this process as a release-management for
> hisilicon SoC.

Are you aware that rdma-core and kernel are independent and can be
installed in any combinations of old/new kernel/library mix?

Thanks

>
> Eason
>
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