> From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:15 PM > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 05:04:55PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > > Not in the patches themselves but in the general issue when a PR changes. > > > > > > Do you think this needs addressing or are things fine as they are now ? > > > > IMO, I think it needs addressing in terms of "can the proposed netlink > > architecture and design accommodate this sort of request in the > > future?" We shouldn't design in a limitation up front. I don't see > > anything in the current approach that would cause an issue. > > There would likely be a need for new messages and attributes. > > I think the kernel netlink side is fine. > > But userspace needs to understand what to do if it gets a request with an > attribute it does not understand. > > It should tell the kernel 'no, do it yourself', rather than try and answer.
I will add some code in ibacm to do that. Kaike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
