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Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 07:41:12 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
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        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
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        Mark Zhang <markz@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 3/7] RDMA/core: Remove protection from wrong
 in-kernel API usage
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 09:13:02AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> 
> The ib_create_named_qp() is kernel verb that is not used for user
> supplied attributes. In such case, it is ULP responsibility to provide
> valid QP attributes.
> 
> In-kernel API shouldn't check it, exactly like other functions that
> don't check device capabilities.

Hmm.  These still looks like useful debugging checks.