[openib-general] makiing ibverb.h transport neutral -- 2nd draft

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:47:04AM -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> The attached .h files follow the alternate approach where each
> transport can define its own specifics in a supplemental .h file
> and avoid the massive union approach.
> 
> This is mostly cosmetic, except for the work request. Because
> some work request opcodes are transport specific the work request
> itself has to follow the same approach of deferred sub-typing
> rather than unioning.
> 
> The impact of this on the existing code would be quite wide,
> but quite shallow. Many types would be renamed form 'ib_xyz'
> to 'rdma_xyz', if being used in transport neutral code. Or
> when staying infiniband specific fields that now qualified
> as transport neutral would require "common." to be inserted
> before the field name. Some constants are shifted from IB_XXX
> to RDMA_XXX.
> 
> The goal of these changes is to allow users of the core
> services to code *most* of their logic without having to
> reference transport specific fields.

This looks very nice to me, one nitpick:  I think ibonly_verbs.h should
be called just ib_verbs.h