At 01:12 PM 8/30/2005, Roland Dreier wrote: > Steve> I thought all ULPs needed to register as an IB client > Steve> regardless? > >Right now they do, because there's no other way to get a struct >ib_device pointer. If we add a new API that returns a struct >ib_device pointer, then inevitably consumers will use it instead of >the current client API, and then hotplug will be hopelessly broken.
Are you telling us that RPC/RDMA (for example) has to handle hotplug events just to use IB? Isn't that the job of a lower layer? NFS/Sockets don't have to deal with these, f'rinstance. Tom. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
