[openib-general] [PATCH] Header file Changes for iWARP Support

[Tom Tucker]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:27 -0800, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> > +
> > +struct iw_cm_verbs {
> > +	int                        (*connect)(struct iw_cm_id* cm_id,
> > +					      const void* private_data,
> > +					      u8 private_data_len);
> 
> Sorry for not catching this earlier. But IETF MPA and RDDP/SCTP
> both allow up to 512 bytes of private data, so "u8" isn't large
> enough for the iWarp specific interface.

Good point, this interface can be anything but as it goes up the stack
it hits the conn_param data structure. Is that a big deal? I guess the
provider could fail it if the supplied private_data_len is too big.