On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:54:38PM -0400, William Jordan wrote: > Why does the userlevel CM use devfs to create device nodes? Userlevel > verbs and mad layers appear to rely on udev.
No reason except that I went with what I thought was the simpler model at the time. Unlike the verbs and mad layers which need a certain number of device nodes for every physical device installed including hot-plug support, the userlevel CM needs just one device node for communicating with the kernel CM which should be present the entire time the kernel CM is loaded. -Libor _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
