[openib-general] Re: Questions about libibat, ib_uat, and ib_a

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 10:07, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > Should this code work, because it seems that out_dev is a kernel
> > address (platform: PPC64) which cannot accessed  by a userspace
> > program. Via GDB I can see that rt has the following content:
> > 
> > The address is rt->out_dev = 0xc0000000cffaa800 which looks like a
> > kernel address.
> 
> Yes, this is a bug which has been previously pointed out on the list and
> not fixed.

The fix for this involves an ABI change: it should return the GID of the
outgoing IB device.

-- Hal