On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 12:46 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This patch converts the srp_max_req_size module parameter to R/W access
> > so that it's accessable when built as CONFIG_INFINIBAND_SRPT=y.  This
> 
> accessible ?
> 
> > includes adding srpt_device->max_req_size that is assigned during
> > srpt_add_one() and referenced directly from there.
> 
> I'm not sure it makes sense to store a copy of this parameter in the
> srpt_device structure. If the HCA driver code (e.g. mlx4) is also
> built into the kernel instead of as a separate module, any changes of
> srp_max_req_size after ib_srpt and HCA driver initialization finished
> won't have any effect.
> 

So it sounds like srp_max_req_size with CONFIG_INFINIBAND_SRPT=y is not
really going to be of much use anyways.  What about just leaving it as
read-only..?

--nab

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