On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 12:54 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 09:27 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Idealy, nothing should be new ioctls. But in the end, it all depends on > > exactly what you are trying to do with each different one. > > Fair enough. > > > I really don't know what the subnet management stuff involves, sorry. > > But doesn't the open-ib layer handle that all for you already? > > It does when our OpenIB driver is being used. But our lower level > driver is independent of OpenIB (and is often used without the > infiniband stuff even configured into the kernel), and needs to provide > some way for a userspace subnet management agent to send and receive > packets.
that sounds like your driver should mimic the openIB userspace ABI for this *exactly* so that you can use the same management tools for either scenario... _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
