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

[Roland Dreier]

    Tom> BTW, along these lines, does anyone have commentary on the
    Tom> netevent registration patch?

It looks reasonable to me, although I'm not sure what the netdev
people will think about scattering notifier calls around the tree.
There's certainly a maintainability cost in terms of requiring those
calls to be kept in sync with how neighbours change.

Also changes to net/ipv6 were conspicuous in their absence.  Does your
patch only handle ipv4?

    Tom> To avoid the impression that this patch falls under the
    Tom> "using IB to get stuff into netdev that would be vetoed
    Tom> otherwise", I am happy to submit a patch to netdev directly
    Tom> to avoid sullying OpenIB's good name.

It's not just sullying a good name -- it's respect for maintainers.
We can't merge new functionality into net/ without buy-in from netdev
and Dave Miller.

 - R.