[openib-general] Re: RDMA Generic Connection Management

[Talpey, Thomas]

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.