[Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMAAPIs and ULPs for Linux

[Tom Duffy]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 12:04 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> That beeing said, one of the first thing you should get rid of if you
> want to be able to take code from kdapl to the generic rdma code is way
> it deals with handles.  The kdapl code gives up language type safety
> just to add its own bandaided type system below.  Please always pass the
> real struct pointer around, or at least the generic struct type which
> might be embedded into a bigger structure, and get rid of all the magic
> number checking and magic macros that expect special members at the
> beginning of all objects behind these handles.

I absolutely agree with this and was planning on implementing said
changes in the near future.

James, can I get a "hell yeah" or a "no freaking way" from you before I
go off and start writing patches?

-tduffy
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