[openib-general] [PATCH] [CM] 1/6 core kernel changes to bind cm_id's to a device

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 20:40, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Now that cm_id's are per-IB-device, does it make sense to have the
> userspace CM create a charcter node for each IB device?  It seems that
> might simplify the interface.
> 
> uverbs handles up to 32 IB devices with minors 192...223, so using the
> minors 224...255 for 32 ucm devices would make sense.  Unfortunately
> uat is using minor 254, so we would have to do some rejiggering.  I
> guess minor numbers shouldn't be driving this -- we should just pick
> the right interface, whatever it is.

uat can easily be moved.

-- Hal