On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Hefty, Sean <sean.he...@intel.com> wrote: >> It maps to what was done in the PortInfo attribute to add the new >> extended speeds. There was no room for expansion in the existing >> original link speed fields so a "parallel" set of fields had to be >> added there.. > > That's was an issue with the wire protocol format, correct?
Right. > Why carry that same concept into a software interface? It seems complex. So as not to break existing verbs apps by inventing new values to existing fields which wouldn't be understood. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html