>Address mapping policies depend on the address type. This patch only
>defines a policy for mapping link-local addresses, and we should
>indeed take care not to change it (if possible).
>Later on, we can add more policies for other address types (e.g.,
>normal IPv6 addresses, mapped IPv4 addresses, etc.)
>>
>> Or maybe it is device-specific, and we could wrap it up into the create
>> AH uverbs call we already have?
>
>Interesting idea. Not sure what is better here: a seperate ABI
>call or some additional 'u8 ctx[32]' field in struct
>ib_uverbs_create_ah_resp that will be interpreted by the hw-specific
>user-space driver.

I don't understand why mapping remote addresses should be driver specific.

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