[openib-general] Re: Re: 2.6.14 heads up: ip_dev_find() not exported

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Mon Sep 26 08:45:43 PDT 2005


Quoting James Lentini <jlentini at netapp.com>:
> > I think we could get by with just dev_get_by_index, I'll have to
> > investigate this.
> 
> FYI: I found a bug in IBAT's use of dev_get_by_index(). See:
> 
> http://openib.org/pipermail/openib-general/2005-September/011668.html
> 

Right. We should just use dev_getfirstbyhwtype and ignore the
fact that it could be down, or manually scan the dev_base list instead.

-- 
MST



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