[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] CMA and iWARP

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Jan 23 11:08:32 PST 2006


    Caitlin> But there are solid precedents for creating an
    Caitlin> extensible/flexible interface even if there is only a
    Caitlin> single user of that interface currently. For example the
    Caitlin> scsi_transport_iscsi defines an very general interface to
    Caitlin> an iscsi transport layer even though iscsi_tcp is the
    Caitlin> only instantiation of that transport.

Sure, but we're talking about creating an interface with zero users.
And even when there is one user, we want to avoid premature and
incorrect abstraction.

 - R.



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