On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 13:50, Roland Dreier wrote: > Itamar> I still see problem when NFSoRDMA or any other dat > Itamar> consumer and dat will be build statically but the > Itamar> dat_provider (ib,iwarp,...) will be build as a module. > > Itamar> who will protect the dat consumer ? how will the dat > Itamar> consumer know that there is no dat_provider available when > Itamar> dat_provider modules are not loaded? > > It seems that the kDAPL design of having consumers call a function to > get a list of adapters does not fit very well with the Linux model of > adapters appearing asynchronously due to drivers being loaded or even > due to device hotplug.
Isn't that (dealing with dynamic devices) a somewhat orthogonal issue although the same IB core mechanism would be utilized (ib_register_client) ? -- Hal _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
