[openib-general] Proposed device enumeration & async event APIs

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Mon Sep 13 10:16:02 PDT 2004


On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:29:42 -0700
Roland Dreier <roland at topspin.com> wrote:

>     Sean> What use do you see for ib_dispatch_event?
> 
> The low-level driver calls it when an unaffiliated event occurs.
> Walking the list of event handlers and calling each one is pretty
> trivial but it feels better to me to keep the details of how the list
> of event handlers is implemented encapsulated in the access layer.

Understood and agree.  (I was thinking that you wanted the call for the ULPs, and was just trying to understand why.)



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