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<p>My understanding is that the refcnt will still need to be held (even after this change) even if SDP would not poke at IPoIB's private data. Is that true?<br>
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Moreover there was discussion about getting this data from the CM REQ private data. So, what is the exact rationale for adding this to the <br>
net_device structure? <br>
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Pradeep<br>
pradeep@us.ibm.com<br>
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<tt>openib-general-bounces@openib.org wrote on 10/03/2005 02:50:21 PM:<br>
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> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 17:35, Roland Dreier wrote:<br>
> > Hal> We will have this shortly. I have been waiting for this to<br>
> > Hal> propose the changes to SDP et al.<br>
> > <br>
> > OK, but I don't think it makes sense to merge this upstream until<br>
> > there is in-tree code that will use it.<br>
> <br>
> I wanted to get this in so I could add the code to IPoIB to use this so SDP<br>
> and others no longer poke at IPoIB's private data. This is a small<br>
> change. Should this change be made locally (in OpenIB) first (and we'll<br>
> have our own modified netdevice.h for a short time) ?<br>
> <br>
> -- Hal<br>
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