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This helps make the kernel understandable. When userspace needs backwards compat to ABI that the current kernel doesn't support then userspace has distinct copies of that information in some compat location. It has happened a few times over the last 15 years. We keep full copies of the current kernel headers in the userspace source tree, when the kernel headers change in a compile incompatible way we fix everything while updating to the new kernel headers. > - it's good to know which uapi numbers (like parameter extensions or > whatever they are in this case) are defacto reserved, because there are > binaries (qemu in this) that have code acting on them out there. Numbers and things get marked reserved or the like > Anyway feel free to ignore since this might be different than drivers/gpu. AFAIK drives/gpu has a lot wider userspace, rdma manages this OK because we only have one library package that provides the user/kernel interface. Jason