> On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 13:21 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > The one thing I left out of the above that might be worth changing is the fact > that you bury your sequence number down in your mad header. If there is a > generic mechanism that multiple modules can use to send customized data > via nl, then it might be worthwhile to have the sequence moved to the > generic level.
Absolutely. The netlink sequence number (for this multicast group) should be moved to drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c and a function should be exported to get next sequence number so that multiple modules using the same multicast group can be multiplexed correctly. > > > -- > Doug Ledford <[email protected]> > GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD
