[openib-general] [KDAPL] module initialization order

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Tue May 10 10:50:00 PDT 2005


    Itamar> I still see problem when NFSoRDMA or any other dat
    Itamar> consumer and dat will be build statically but the
    Itamar> dat_provider (ib,iwarp,...) will be build as a module.

    Itamar> who will protect the dat consumer ?  how will the dat
    Itamar> consumer know that there is no dat_provider available when
    Itamar> dat_provider modules are not loaded?

It seems that the kDAPL design of having consumers call a function to
get a list of adapters does not fit very well with the Linux model of
adapters appearing asynchronously due to drivers being loaded or even
due to device hotplug.

 - R.



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