[openib-general] [KDAPL] module initialization order

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 13:50, Roland Dreier wrote: 
>     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.

Isn't that (dealing with dynamic devices) a somewhat orthogonal issue
although the same IB core mechanism would be utilized
(ib_register_client) ?

-- Hal